Definition of American white oak

1. Noun. Large slow-growing deciduous tree of the eastern United States having stout spreading branches and leaves with usually 7 rounded lobes; yields strong and durable hard wood.

Exact synonyms: Quercus Alba
Generic synonyms: White Oak

Lexicographical Neighbors of American White Oak

American sweet gum
American sweetgum
American sweetgums
American sycamore
American tarantula
American toad
American trypanosomiasis
American turkey oak
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
American woodcock
American wormseed
Americana
Americanese
Americanisation
Americanisations
Americanise
Americanised

Literary usage of American white oak

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

1. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign by Thomas Laslett (1894)
"american white oak (Quercus alba}. This tree derives its name from the pale ash colour of its bark, and is said to flourish in almost every variety of soil, ..."

2. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign by Thomas Laslett, Harry Marshall Ward (1894)
"american white oak (Quercus alba). This tree derives its name from the pale ash colour of its bark, and is said to flourish in almost every variety of soil, ..."

3. A Year Among the Trees: Or, The Woods and By-ways of New England by Wilson Flagg (1881)
"... though not the largest, of the American trees of the Oak family, and the one that is most like the English tree, is the american white oak. ..."

4. The Elasticity and Resistance of the Materials of Engineering by William Hubert Burr (1903)
"American white Oak. American, Baltimore Oak. African (or Teak) Teak, Moulmein Ir>.m wood. ... New Zealand Locust, American White oak, American Spruce. ..."

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