Chinquapin or chinkapin may refer to:

Plants

* Chinquapin or chinkapin, any of the shrubs in the genus '' Castanopsis'' * Chinquapin or chinkapin, any of the several trees and shrubs in the genus ''

Chrysolepis ''Chrysolepis'' is a small genus of plants in the family Fagaceae, endemic to the western United States. Its two species have the common name chinquapin. The genus occurs from western Washington south to the Transverse Ranges in Southern Califor ...

'' * Chinquapin or chinkapin, some of the species in the

chestnut The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Castanea'', in the beech family Fagaceae. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce. The unrelat ...

genus ''Castanea'' **American chinquapin, ''

Castanea pumila ''Castanea pumila'', commonly known as the Allegheny chinquapin, American chinquapin (from the Powhatan) or dwarf chestnut, is a species of chestnut native to the southeastern United States. The native range is from Maryland and extreme souther ...

'', a dwarf chestnut native to southeastern quarter of the U.S. * Chinkapin oak ('' Quercus muehlenbergii''), a species of oak whose leaves resemble those of chinkapins * Dwarf chinkapin oak (''

Quercus prinoides ''Quercus prinoides'', commonly known as dwarf chinkapin oak, dwarf chinquapin oak, dwarf chestnut oak or scrub chestnut oak, is a shrubby, clone-forming oak native to central-eastern North America. Description The dwarf chinkapin oak is a s ...

''), a closely related, more shrubby oak species * Water-chinquapin, a name for the water plant '' Nelumbo lutea'', American lotus * Chinquapin rose, a name for ''

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'', an old Chinese rose

Places

Chinquapin, California Chinquapin, elevation 6000 ft, is at the intersection of Glacier Point and Wawona roads Chinquapin (also, Chincapin and Chinkapin) is a former settlement in Mariposa County, California. It was located north-northwest of Wawona. It is located wit ...

, a former settlement in Mariposa County, California * Chinquapin, North Carolina, a community in Duplin County, North Carolina * Chinquapin, Texas, Matagorda County, Texas

Institutions

* Chinquapin Preparatory School, a school in Highlands, Texas * Chinquapin Middle School, a school in

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Other uses

*, a ship in the US Navy * Chinquapin Parish, a fictional parish in Louisiana and the setting for the 1987 play ''

Steel Magnolias ''Steel Magnolias'' is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Academy Award winner Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts. The picture is a film adaptation ...

'' * Chinquapin, a name for the

redear sunfish The redear sunfish (''Lepomis microlophus''), also known as the shellcracker, Georgia bream, cherry gill, chinquapin, improved bream, rouge ear sunfish and sun perch) is a freshwater fish in the family Centrarchidae and is native to the southeast ...

(''Lepomis microlophus'') * ''Chinquapin'' (newsletter), newsletter of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society

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