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JACK OAK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes
Synonyms:
jack oak; northern pin oak; Quercus ellipsoidalis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("jack oak" is a kind of...):
oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)
Sense 2
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
Synonyms:
blackjack; blackjack oak; jack oak; Quercus marilandica
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
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)
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