Chinquapin
# 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 muehlenbergii), 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
* Chinquapin rose, a name for Rosa roxburghii, an old Chinese rose

## 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

* 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
