OAK TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oak tree mean? 

• OAK TREE (noun)
  The noun OAK TREE has 1 sense:

1. a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OAK TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

oak; oak tree

Context example:

great oaks grow from little acorns

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

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (parts of "oak tree"):

acorn (fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base)

Meronyms (substance of "oak tree"):

oak (the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oak tree"):

overcup oak; Quercus lyrata (medium-large deciduous timber tree of central and southern United States; acorns deeply immersed in the cup and mature in first year)

black oak; quercitron; quercitron oak; Quercus velutina; yellow oak (medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped)

Chinese cork oak; Quercus variabilis (medium to large deciduous tree of China, Japan, and Korea having thick corky bark)

Quercus texana; Spanish oak (small deciduous tree having the trunk branched almost from the base with spreading branches; Texas and southern Oklahoma)

cork oak; Quercus suber (medium-sized evergreen oak of southern Europe and northern Africa having thick corky bark that is periodically stripped to yield commercial cork)

box white oak; brash oak; iron oak; post oak; Quercus stellata (small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having dark green lyrate pinnatifid leaves and tough moisture-resistant wood used especially for fence posts)

Quercus phellos; willow oak (medium to large deciduous oak of the eastern United States having long lanceolate leaves and soft strong wood)

pin oak; Quercus palustris; swamp oak (fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil)

Nuttall's oak; Nuttall oak; Quercus nuttalli (similar to the pin oak; grows in damp sites in Mississippi River basin)

possum oak; Quercus nigra; water oak (relatively tall deciduous water oak of southeastern United States often cultivated as a shade tree; thrives in wet soil)

chestnut oak (an oak having leaves resembling those of chestnut trees)

Japanese oak; Quercus grosseserrata; Quercus mongolica (oak with moderately light fine-grained wood; Japan)

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

laurel oak; pin oak; Quercus laurifolia (large nearly semi-evergreen oak of southeastern United States; thrives in damp soil)

American turkey oak; Quercus laevis; turkey oak (small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes)

California black oak; Quercus kelloggii (large deciduous tree of the Pacific coast having deeply parted bristle-tipped leaves)

bluejack oak; Quercus incana; turkey oak (small semi-evergreen shrubby tree of southeastern United States having hairy young branchlets and leaves narrowing to a slender bristly point)

laurel oak; Quercus imbricaria; shingle oak (small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having leaves that shine like laurel; wood is used in western states for shingles)

evergreen oak; holly-leaved oak; holm oak; holm tree; Quercus ilex (evergreen oak of southern Europe having leaves somewhat resembling those of holly; yields a hard wood)

red oak (any of numerous American oaks having 4 stamens in each floret, acorns requiring two years to mature and leaf veins usually extending beyond the leaf margin to form points or bristles)

jack oak; northern pin oak; Quercus ellipsoidalis (small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes)

Quercus coccinea; scarlet oak (medium-large deciduous tree with a thick trunk found in the eastern United States and southern Canada and having close-grained wood and deeply seven-lobed leaves turning scarlet in autumn)

European turkey oak; Quercus cerris; turkey oak (large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes)

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)

live oak (any of several American evergreen oaks)

Holonyms ("oak tree" is a member of...):

genus Quercus; Quercus (oaks)

 Context examples 

Amid the gloom of the oak trees something was coming towards us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Yonder, among the oak trees," said the tiger, pointing with his forefoot.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He took the little tailor to a mighty oak tree which lay there felled on the ground, and said: If you are strong enough, help me to carry the tree out of the forest.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My oak trees may fight those rascals over the water when I am long forgotten.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)