Meaning

19 senses

  1. In California:

    (US)California scrub oak (Quercus berberidifolia)

  2. (US)Coastal scrub oak (Quercus dumosa), variously circumscribed.

  3. (US)Leather oak (Quercus durata)

  4. (US)Tucker oak (Quercus john-tuckeri)

  5. (US)Island scrub oak (Quercus pacifica)

  6. (US)Santa Cruz Island oak (Quercus parvula)

  7. In the southwestern United States:

    (US)Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii)

  8. (US)Emory oak (Quercus emoryi)

  9. (US)Sonoran scrub oak (Quercus turbinella)

  10. (US)Quercus × pauciloba (=Quercus undulata)

  11. Any of numerous dwarfish species of oak (genus Quercus, principally in the United States.

    (US)In the northeastern United States

  12. In the northeastern United States:

    (US)Bear oak (Quercus ilicifolia)

More definitions
  • any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Both road and stream wound up through a valley dense with scrub oak and fir.

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Forms

plural: scrub oaks
Singularscrub oak
Pluralscrub oaks

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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