Chinquapin

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
• Chinquapin or chinkapin, some of the species in the chestnut genus Castanea
  • American chinquapin, Castanea pumila, a dwarf chestnut native to southeastern quarter of the U.S.
• Chinkapin oak (Quercus muhlenbergii), a species of oak whose leaves resemble those of chinkapins
• Dwarf chinkapin oak (Quercus prinoides), a closely related, more shrubby oak species
• Water-chinquapin, a name for the water plant Nelumbo lutea, American lotus

Places

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

Institutions

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

Other uses

• USS Chinquapin (AN-17), a ship in the US Navy
• Chinquapin Parish, a fictional parish in Louisiana and the setting for the 1987 play Steel Magnolias
• Chinquapin, a name for the redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus)
• Chinquapin (newsletter), newsletter of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society

See also

• Chinquapin Grove, former name of Dacula, Georgia
• Chinqua Penn Plantation