dwarf chestnut

noun

1. the edible nut of the chinquapin tree

2. another name for chinquapin

Example Sentences

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

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

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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.

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

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