SCRUB OAK

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Meaning:

Any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scrub oak"):

bear oak; Quercus ilicifolia (shrubby oak of southeastern United States usually forming dense thickets)

blackjack; blackjack oak; jack oak; Quercus marilandica (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)

myrtle oak; Quercus myrtifolia; seaside scrub oak (small evergreen shrub or tree of southeastern United States; often forms almost impenetrable thickets in sandy coastal areas)

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