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AMERICAN WHITE OAK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does American white oak mean?
• AMERICAN WHITE OAK (noun)
The noun AMERICAN WHITE OAK has 1 sense:
1. large slow-growing deciduous tree of the eastern United States having stout spreading branches and leaves with usually 7 rounded lobes; yields strong and durable hard wood
Familiarity information: AMERICAN WHITE OAK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large slow-growing deciduous tree of the eastern United States having stout spreading branches and leaves with usually 7 rounded lobes; yields strong and durable hard wood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
American white oak; Quercus alba
Hypernyms ("American white oak" is a kind of...):
white oak (any of numerous Old World and American oaks having 6 to 8 stamens in each floret, acorns that mature in one year and leaf veins that never extend beyond the margin of the leaf)
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