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Definition of California live oak
1. Noun. Highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves.
Lexicographical Neighbors of California Live Oak
Literary usage of California live oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. To and Fro, Up and Down in Southern California, Oregon, and Washington by Emma Hildreth Adams (1888)
"Though themselves cabined in pure air, A California Live-oak. they do not forget
the multitudes tented amid the earth's moral miasms below. ..."
2. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1906)
"era to Lower California, is known as California live oak, ... This California
live oak is usually not more than forty or fifty feet in height, ..."
3. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"... Spanish oak, pin oak, black oak or yellow oak; and the (3) Live Oaks include
the Southern live oak, California live oak, canon live oak. ..."
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