ENGLISH OAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does English oak mean? 

• ENGLISH OAK (noun)
  The noun ENGLISH 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: ENGLISH OAK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENGLISH OAK (noun)

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 ("English 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)

 Context examples 

On a chance we tried an important-looking door, and walked into a high Gothic library, panelled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)