Definition of American turkey oak

1. Noun. Small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes.

Exact synonyms: Quercus Laevis, Turkey Oak
Generic synonyms: Oak, Oak Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Turkey Oak

American smooth dogfish
American spelling
American spellings
American spicebush
American spikenard
American state
American sweet chestnut
American sweet gum
American sweetgum
American sweetgums
American sycamore
American tarantula
American toad
American trypanosomiasis
American turkey oak (current term)
American twinflower
American wall fern
American water ouzel
American water shrew
American water spaniel
American watercress
American white birch
American white oak
American white pine
American widgeon
American widgeons
American wire gauge
American wistaria
American wisteria

Literary usage of American turkey oak

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"Oak, Box white Oak, American Turkey " Oak (so called, because the acorns, which arc sweet, are eaten by the wild turkeys), upland white ..."

2. A Practical Flora for Schools and Colleges by Oliver Rivington Willis (1894)
"American turkey oak. Iron Oak. Upland White Oak.) Trunk 40 feet high, 12 to 18 inches in diameter. Bark thin, grayish-white, branching irregularly. ..."

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