different between chinkapin vs chinquapin

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Noun

chinkapin (plural chinkapins)

1. Alternative form of chinquapin.

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Alternative forms

• chinkapin, chincapin

Etymology

Like its cognate / alternative form chinkapin, chinquapin is an alteration of chechinquamin / chincomen (the form found in early records), from an Algonquian language (sometimes said specifically to be from Powhatan). The final element is *mini (“berry, fruit”). Hewitt suggested that the first element was a word meaning "large, great" cognate to xinkw- (“big, large, great”).

Noun

chinquapin (plural chinquapins)

1. Any of the trees in the genus Castanopsis.
2. Any of the trees and shrubs in the genus Chrysolepis.
3. A water chinquapin, the water plant Nelumbo lutea, American lotus.
4. The redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus).
5. A species in the chestnut genus Castanea:
   1. Allegheny chinkapin (Castanea pumila)
   2. Ozark chinkapin (Castanea ozarkensis)
   3. Chinese chinkapin (Castanea henryi)
6. A chinkapin oak (Quercus muehlenbergii), a species of oak whose leaves resemble those of chestnut-genus chinquapins.

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