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noun
An oak tree with rounded leaf lobes and relatively pale wood, native to eastern North America, Quercus alba.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, usually
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noun
A similar oak tree in a subgenus, Quercus subg. Quercus, especially section Quercus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, usually
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noun
Lagunaria patersonia (Queensland white oak).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, usually
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noun
The wood of such trees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: oak, oak tree
Narrower terms: American white oak, Quercus alba, Arizona white oak, Quercus arizonica, swamp white oak, swamp oak, Quercus bicolor, Oregon white oak, Oregon oak, Garry oak, Quercus garryana, California white oak, valley oak, valley white oak, roble, Quercus lobata, bur oak, burr oak, mossy-cup oak, mossycup oak, Quercus macrocarpa, durmast, Quercus petraea, Quercus sessiliflora, common oak, English oak, pedunculate oak, Quercus robur
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