A small North American tree or shrub that produces edible nuts similar to chestnuts, or the nut itself.
From Powhatan Algonquian 'chincamin' or similar. Early English colonists borrowed the word from Native Americans who had long harvested these nutritious nuts as a food source.
Chinquapins were an overlooked food source that fed Native Americans for thousands of years—chestnuts got all the fame but chinquapins were just as nutritious and still grow wild today!
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