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SEASIDE SCRUB OAK
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small evergreen shrub or tree of southeastern United States; often forms almost impenetrable thickets in sandy coastal areas
Synonyms:
myrtle oak; Quercus myrtifolia; seaside scrub oak
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Hypernyms ("seaside scrub 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)