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COMMON OAK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does common oak mean?
• COMMON OAK (noun)
The noun COMMON OAK has 1 sense:
1. medium to large deciduous European oak having smooth leaves with rounded lobes; yields hard strong light-colored wood
Familiarity information: COMMON OAK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Medium to large deciduous European oak having smooth leaves with rounded lobes; yields hard strong light-colored wood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
common oak; English oak; pedunculate oak; Quercus robur
Hypernyms ("common 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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