JACK OAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jack oak mean? 

• JACK OAK (noun)
  The noun JACK OAK has 2 senses:

1. a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets

2. small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes

  Familiarity information: JACK OAK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JACK OAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blackjack; blackjack oak; jack oak; Quercus marilandica

Hypernyms ("jack oak" is a kind of...):

scrub oak (any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

jack oak; northern pin oak; Quercus ellipsoidalis

Hypernyms ("jack oak" is a kind of...):

oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)