allegheny chinkapin

Questions about allegheny chinkapin

What does allegheny chinkapin mean?

allegheny chinkapin means "shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts".

What is another word for allegheny chinkapin?

Close synonyms include eastern chinquapin, chinquapin, dwarf chestnut, Castanea pumila. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is allegheny chinkapin a common word?

allegheny chinkapin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.