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INTERIOR LIVE OAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interior live oak mean? 

INTERIOR LIVE OAK (noun)
  The noun INTERIOR LIVE OAK has 1 sense:

1. a small shrubby evergreen tree of western North America similar to the coast live oak but occurring chiefly in foothills of mountain ranges removed from the coast; an important part of the chaparralplay

  Familiarity information: INTERIOR LIVE OAK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INTERIOR LIVE OAK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A small shrubby evergreen tree of western North America similar to the coast live oak but occurring chiefly in foothills of mountain ranges removed from the coast; an important part of the chaparral

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

interior live oak; Quercus wislizenii; Quercus wizlizenii

Hypernyms ("interior live oak" is a kind of...):

live oak (any of several American evergreen oaks)


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