Chinquapin
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Plants

  • Chinquapin or chinkapin, any of the shrubs in the genus Castanopsis
    Castanopsis
    Castanopsis is a genus of evergreen trees belonging to the beech family, Fagaceae. The genus contains about 120 species, which are today restricted to tropical and subtropical eastern Asia. A total of 58 species are native to China, with 30 endemic; the other species occur further south, through...

  • Chinquapin or chinkapin, any of the several trees and shrubs in the genus Chrysolepis
    Chrysolepis
    Chrysolepis is a small genus in the beech family Fagaceae, endemic to the western United States. Its two species have the common name chinquapin...

  • Chinquapin or chinkapin, some of the species in the chestnut
    Chestnut
    Chestnut , some species called chinkapin or chinquapin, is a genus of eight or nine species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the beech family Fagaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce.-Species:The chestnut belongs to the...

     genus Castanea
  • Chinkapin oak
    Chinkapin oak
    Quercus muehlenbergii, the chinkapin oak , is an oak in the white oak group . The scientific name is often incorrectly spelled Q. muhlenbergii, and the species was often called Quercus acuminata in older literature...

     (Quercus muhlenbergii), a species of oak whose leaves resemble those of chinkapins
  • Water-chinquapin, a name for the water plant Nelumbo lutea
    Nelumbo lutea
    Nelumbo lutea is a species of flowering plant in the monogeneric family Nelumbonaceae. Common names include American lotus, yellow lotus, water-chinquapin, and volée. It is native to North America...

    , American lotus

Places

  • Chinquapin, California
    Chinquapin, California
    Chinquapin is a former settlement in Mariposa County, California. It was located north-northwest of Wawona. Also, it is adjacent to the community of Yosemite West-History:...

    , a former settlement in Mariposa County, California
  • Chinquapin, North Carolina
    Chinquapin, North Carolina
    Chinquapin is an unincorporated community in Duplin County, North Carolina.It is located at 34.8° N latitude and -77.82° W. longitude, at an elevation of .- References :...

    , a community in Duplin County, North Carolina
  • Chinquapin Grove, former name of Dacula, Georgia
    Dacula, Georgia
    As of 2010 Dacula had a population of 4,442. the median age was 35.2. There were 1,472 households with 92.0% of housing units occupied. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 76.6% white , 11.3% black or African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.4% Asian Indian, 2.8% other...


Institutions

  • The Chinquapin School
    The Chinquapin School
    The Chinquapin School is a nonprofit private college-preparatory school, grades six through twelve, which serves low-income youth, particularly minorities, from the Greater Houston area...

    , a school in Highlands, Texas
  • Chinquapin Middle School, a school in Baltimore, Maryland

Others

, a ship in the US Navy
  • Chinquapin Parish, a fictional parish in Louisiana, the setting for the film Steel Magnolias
    Steel Magnolias
    Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross that stars Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah and Julia Roberts....

  • Chinquapin, a name for the redear sunfish
    Redear sunfish
    The redear sunfish , also known as the shellcracker, Georgia bream, cherry gill, chinquapin, improved bream, rouge ear sunfish and sun perch, is native to the southeastern United States, but since it is a popular sport fish it has been introduced to bodies of water all over North America...

    (Lepomis microlophus)
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