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dwarf chestnut

noun

  1. the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  2. another name for chinquapin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The dwarf chestnut of the Middle and Southern states is decidedly ornamental in a fruit garden.

STABLER: I am very much interested in Dr. Morris' proposition to produce dwarf chestnut trees by grafting on chinquapin stocks.

First the chinquapin, a small dwarf chestnut which grows in the southern Atlantic states but reaches as far north as New Jersey and perhaps farther for all I know.

The species is merely that of a dwarf chestnut growing as a shrub instead of as a tree.

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