Definition of Quercus agrifolia

1. Noun. Highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves.

Exact synonyms: California Live Oak, Coast Live Oak
Generic synonyms: Live Oak

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quercus Agrifolia

Queensland hemp
Queensland nut
Queensland nuts
Queenslander
Queenslanders
Queer Street
Quellung reaction
Quemoy
Quentin
Quentin Jerome Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quenu
Quenu's haemorrhoidal plexus
Quenu-Muret sign
Quenya
Quercus agrifolia (current term)
Quercus alba
Quercus arizonica
Quercus bicolor
Quercus borealis
Quercus cerris
Quercus chrysolepis
Quercus coccinea
Quercus ellipsoidalis
Quercus falcata
Quercus garryana
Quercus grosseserrata
Quercus ilex
Quercus ilicifolia
Quercus imbricaria

Literary usage of Quercus agrifolia

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

1. The Broad-sclerophyll Vegetation of California: An Ecological Study of the by William Skinner Cooper (1922)
"The character tree is Quercus agrifolia.1 Arbutus menziesii is next in ... Quercus agrifolia Consociation.—South of the southern limit of Arbutus (Los ..."

2. ... California Gall-making Cynipidae with Descriptions of New Species by Mary Isabel McCracken, Dorothy Barnes Egbert (1922)
"Quercus kelloggii Newberry and Quercus agrifolia Nee. Type.—"Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist." Paratypes in the "Kinsey collection" and galls in the Stanford Ento. ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1913)
"The forest is composed almost entirely of Pinus radiata and Quercus agrifolia, with the former dominating. There are also Monterey cypress (Cupressus macro- ..."

4. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"Quercus agrifolia Nee. Figs. 93, 94 and 34. Leaves roundish, elliptic, sometimes ovate or ... Quercus agrifolia grows on rich valley floors, rocky hills, ..."

5. Eucalyptus by Abbot Kinney (1895)
"I have never seen such an accident befall Quercus agrifolia. ... Quercus agrifolia has, locally, the widest range of any of our Southern California trees. ..."

6. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"The wood of Quercus agrifolia is hard, heavy and moderately strong. ... In his account of Quercus agrifolia he says that he cannot give the height of the ..."

7. A Mission Record of the California Indians: From a Manuscript in the by Alfred Louis Kroeber, José Francisco de Paula Señán, Vicente Francisco Sarría (1910)
"Acorns esteemed for food, though not so much as those of Quercus agrifolia and Californica. A gambling toy is made from the large acorn- cups of this oak. ..."

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