SCARLET OAK

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Meaning:

Medium-large deciduous tree with a thick trunk found in the eastern United States and southern Canada and having close-grained wood and deeply seven-lobed leaves turning scarlet in autumn

Synonyms:

Quercus coccinea; scarlet oak

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("scarlet oak" is a kind of...):

oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)

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