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Definition of Northern red oak
1. Noun. Large symmetrical deciduous tree with rounded crown widely distributed in eastern North America; has large leaves with triangular spiny tipped lobes and coarse-grained wood less durable than that of white oaks.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Northern Red Oak
Literary usage of Northern red oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Storms Over the Urban Forest: Planning, Responding, and Regreening by Lisa L. Burban, John W. Anderson (1996)
"Pin oak suffered greater damage than northern red oak, white oak, ... Other authors
report northern red oak intermediate in susceptibility to ice damage (1 ..."
2. Country Acres: A Guide to Buying and Managing Rural Property by Lowell L. Klessig (1999)
"northern red oak: Although oaks rarely dominate a woodlot in northern Wisconsin,
northern red oak is present in many mixed stands. ..."
3. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"The wood, heavier and stronger than that of the northern red oak, is coarse-grained
and porous, reddish-brown in color; the thick sapwood light brown. ..."
4. Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by M. Boya Edwards (2001)
"The steady state vegetation was a northern red oak- eastern hemlock-witch hazel
type on mesic sites, a northern red oak-white oak-hickory type on ..."
5. Pamphlets on Forestry in North Carolina (1897)
"It is superior in working qualities to that ot the northern red oak or any other
of the American red and Msck oaks. In North Carolina, on account of the ..."
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