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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 chaparral
Familiarity information: INTERIOR LIVE OAK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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