chinquapin

English

Alternative forms

• chinkapin, chincapin

Etymology

Like its cognate / alternative form chinkapin, chinquapin is an alteration of chechinquamin / chincomen (the form found in early records), from an (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  language (sometimes said specifically to be from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Powhatan). The final element is *mini (“berry, fruit”). Hewitt suggested that the first element was a word meaning "large, great" cognate to xinkw- (“big, large, great”).

Noun

chinquapin (plural chinquapins)

1. Any of the trees in the genus Castanopsis.
2. Any of the trees and shrubs in the genus .
3. A water chinquapin, the water plant Nelumbo lutea, American lotus.
4. The redear sunfish ().
5. A species in the chestnut genus Castanea:
   1. Allegheny chinkapin ()
   2. Ozark chinkapin ()
   3. Chinese chinkapin ()
6. A chinkapin oak (), a species of oak whose leaves resemble those of chestnut-genus chinquapins.

Translations

shrub in the genus Castanopsis

• Cherokee: ᎤᎾᎩᎾ (unagina)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Scheinkastanie f