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