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Definition of Black oak

1. Noun. Medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Oak

Literary usage of Black oak

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"This they did to locate as far as possible the position occupied by the black oak at the other extremity of that line, and therefrom, when so located, ..."

2. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"black oak, pg. 152, also Black Jack Oak, pg. 156, north only from Long Island to s. Minn., south to cen. Fla. and s. Tex., also Slippery Elm, pg. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"On the black shale of the Devonian an over-cup oak, black oak, sweet gum, beech, snd elm, sad, In places when the seil is well drained, yellow poplar, ..."

4. Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification by Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis (1913)
"COMPARISONS—The three most common trees of the black oak group (the Red, ... Those of the black oak are densely pale woolly over whole surface, ..."

5. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1904)
"Remark upon the Quercus tinctoria or black oak, and the nut trees of that country.— Departure from New York for Philadelphia.— Abode. ..."

6. A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia by Oren Frederic Morton (1920)
"... south 60 degrees west 14 poles to a sycamore and white walnut tree on the east side of the said branch south 60 degrees west 330 poles to a black oak ..."

7. Studies of Trees in Winter: A Description of the Deciduous Trees of by Annie Oakes Huntington (1902)
"... the black oak, the red, the scarlet, the pin, and the bear or scrub oak belong to the second group. The oak is distinguished from all other trees by its ..."

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