QUERCUS MARILANDICA

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

blackjack; blackjack oak; jack oak; Quercus marilandica

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Quercus marilandica" 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)

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