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SCRUB OAK
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("scrub 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 "scrub oak"):
bear oak; Quercus ilicifolia (shrubby oak of southeastern United States usually forming dense thickets)
blackjack; blackjack oak; jack oak; Quercus marilandica (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)
myrtle oak; Quercus myrtifolia; seaside scrub oak (small evergreen shrub or tree of southeastern United States; often forms almost impenetrable thickets in sandy coastal areas)
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