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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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of American Turkey Oak
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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