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chinquapin
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Chinquapin
(gcide) | Chinquapin \Chin"qua*pin\, n. (Bot.)
A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of
North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the
chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat. [Written also
chincapin and chinkapin.]
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Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak (Quercus prinoides)
of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns.
Western Chinquapin, an evergreen shrub or tree ({Castanopes
chrysophylla}) of the Pacific coast. In California it is a
shrub; in Oregon a tree 30 to 125 feet high.
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chinquapin
(wn) | chinquapin
n 1: shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but
with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States [syn:
Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin, chinquapin,
Castanea ozarkensis]
2: shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having
small edible nuts [syn: Allegheny chinkapin, {eastern
chinquapin}, chinquapin, dwarf chestnut, {Castanea
pumila}]
3: small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the
southern United States; resembles a hazelnut [syn:
chincapin, chinkapin, chinquapin] |
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chinquapin
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chinquapin oak
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dwarf chinquapin oak
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eastern chinquapin
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water chinquapin
(encz) | water chinquapin, n: |
Chinquapin oak
(gcide) | Oak \Oak\ ([=o]k), n. [OE. oke, ok, ak, AS. [=a]c; akin to D.
eik, G. eiche, OHG. eih, Icel. eik, Sw. ek, Dan. eeg.]
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1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks
have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and
staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut,
called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a
scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now
recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly
fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe,
Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few
barely reaching the northern parts of South America and
Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand
proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually
hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary
rays, forming the silver grain.
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2. The strong wood or timber of the oak.
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Note: Among the true oaks in America are:
Barren oak, or
Black-jack, Quercus nigra.
Basket oak, Quercus Michauxii.
Black oak, Quercus tinctoria; -- called also yellow oak
or quercitron oak.
Bur oak (see under Bur.), Quercus macrocarpa; -- called
also over-cup or mossy-cup oak.
Chestnut oak, Quercus Prinus and Quercus densiflora.
Chinquapin oak (see under Chinquapin), {Quercus
prinoides}.
Coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, of California; -- also
called enceno.
Live oak (see under Live), Quercus virens, the best of
all for shipbuilding; also, Quercus Chrysolepis, of
California.
Pin oak. Same as Swamp oak.
Post oak, Quercus obtusifolia.
Red oak, Quercus rubra.
Scarlet oak, Quercus coccinea.
Scrub oak, Quercus ilicifolia, Quercus undulata, etc.
Shingle oak, Quercus imbricaria.
Spanish oak, Quercus falcata.
Swamp Spanish oak, or
Pin oak, Quercus palustris.
Swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor.
Water oak, Quercus aquatica.
Water white oak, Quercus lyrata.
Willow oak, Quercus Phellos.
[1913 Webster] Among the true oaks in Europe are:
Bitter oak, or
Turkey oak, Quercus Cerris (see Cerris).
Cork oak, Quercus Suber.
English white oak, Quercus Robur.
Evergreen oak,
Holly oak, or
Holm oak, Quercus Ilex.
Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera.
Nutgall oak, Quercus infectoria.
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Note: Among plants called oak, but not of the genus
Quercus, are:
African oak, a valuable timber tree ({Oldfieldia
Africana}).
Australian oak or She oak, any tree of the genus
Casuarina (see Casuarina).
Indian oak, the teak tree (see Teak).
Jerusalem oak. See under Jerusalem.
New Zealand oak, a sapindaceous tree ({Alectryon
excelsum}).
Poison oak, a shrub once not distinguished from poison ivy,
but now restricted to Rhus toxicodendron or {Rhus
diversiloba}.
Silky oak or Silk-bark oak, an Australian tree
(Grevillea robusta).
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Green oak, oak wood colored green by the growth of the
mycelium of certain fungi.
Oak apple, a large, smooth, round gall produced on the
leaves of the American red oak by a gallfly ({Cynips
confluens}). It is green and pulpy when young.
Oak beauty (Zool.), a British geometrid moth ({Biston
prodromaria}) whose larva feeds on the oak.
Oak gall, a gall found on the oak. See 2d Gall.
Oak leather (Bot.), the mycelium of a fungus which forms
leatherlike patches in the fissures of oak wood.
Oak pruner. (Zool.) See Pruner, the insect.
Oak spangle, a kind of gall produced on the oak by the
insect Diplolepis lenticularis.
Oak wart, a wartlike gall on the twigs of an oak.
The Oaks, one of the three great annual English horse races
(the Derby and St. Leger being the others). It was
instituted in 1779 by the Earl of Derby, and so called
from his estate.
To sport one's oak, to be "not at home to visitors,"
signified by closing the outer (oaken) door of one's
rooms. [Cant, Eng. Univ.]
[1913 Webster]Chinquapin \Chin"qua*pin\, n. (Bot.)
A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of
North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the
chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat. [Written also
chincapin and chinkapin.]
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Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak (Quercus prinoides)
of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns.
Western Chinquapin, an evergreen shrub or tree ({Castanopes
chrysophylla}) of the Pacific coast. In California it is a
shrub; in Oregon a tree 30 to 125 feet high.
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Water chinquapin
(gcide) | Water chinquapin \Wa"ter chin"qua*pin\ (Bot.)
The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat
resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.
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Western Chinquapin
(gcide) | Chinquapin \Chin"qua*pin\, n. (Bot.)
A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of
North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the
chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat. [Written also
chincapin and chinkapin.]
[1913 Webster]
Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak (Quercus prinoides)
of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns.
Western Chinquapin, an evergreen shrub or tree ({Castanopes
chrysophylla}) of the Pacific coast. In California it is a
shrub; in Oregon a tree 30 to 125 feet high.
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chinquapin
(wn) | chinquapin
n 1: shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but
with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States [syn:
Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin, chinquapin,
Castanea ozarkensis]
2: shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having
small edible nuts [syn: Allegheny chinkapin, {eastern
chinquapin}, chinquapin, dwarf chestnut, {Castanea
pumila}]
3: small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the
southern United States; resembles a hazelnut [syn:
chincapin, chinkapin, chinquapin] |
chinquapin oak
(wn) | chinquapin oak
n 1: medium-sized deciduous tree of the eastern United States
that yields a strong durable wood [syn: chinquapin oak,
chinkapin oak, yellow chestnut oak, {Quercus
muehlenbergii}] |
dwarf chinquapin oak
(wn) | dwarf chinquapin oak
n 1: deciduous shrubby tree of northeastern and central United
States having a sweet edible nut and often forming dense
thickets [syn: dwarf chinkapin oak, {dwarf chinquapin
oak}, dwarf oak, Quercus prinoides] |
eastern chinquapin
(wn) | eastern chinquapin
n 1: shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having
small edible nuts [syn: Allegheny chinkapin, {eastern
chinquapin}, chinquapin, dwarf chestnut, {Castanea
pumila}] |
ozark chinquapin
(wn) | Ozark chinquapin
n 1: shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but
with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States [syn:
Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin, chinquapin,
Castanea ozarkensis] |
water chinquapin
(wn) | water chinquapin
n 1: water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow
blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds [syn: {water
chinquapin}, American lotus, yanquapin, {Nelumbo
lutea}]
2: edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor
of a chinquapin |
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