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LIVE OAK
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several American evergreen oaks
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("live oak" is a kind of...):
oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "live oak"):
California live oak; coast live oak; Quercus agrifolia (highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves)
canyon live oak; canyon oak; iron oak; maul oak; Quercus chrysolepis (medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves)
Quercus virginiana; southern live oak (medium-sized evergreen native to eastern North America to the east coast of Mexico; often cultivated as shade tree for it wide-spreading crown; extremely hard tough durable wood once used in shipbuilding)
interior live oak; Quercus wislizenii; Quercus wizlizenii (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)
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