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Word Meanings - CHINQUAPIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns. -- Western Chinquapin, an evergreen shrub or tree (Castanopes chrysophylla) of the Pacific

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A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. 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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