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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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quercus Agrifolia
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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