dwarf chestnut
Britishnoun
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the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
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another name for chinquapin
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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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