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Definition of Brash oak
1. Noun. Small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having dark green lyrate pinnatifid leaves and tough moisture-resistant wood used especially for fence posts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brash Oak
Literary usage of Brash oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"brash oak (Md.). Chene etoile (Quebec). Locality. East of Rocky Mountains —
Massachusetts to northern Florida, westward intermittently to Nebraska and Gulf ..."
2. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1848)
"Old brash oak is porous, and not good for keeping butter a long time. The same
may be said of open-grained ash, though the best of ash answers well. ..."
3. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"White Oak (Ky., Ind.); Box Oak (Mtl.); brash oak (Md.). Quercus chapman! Sargent.
Chapman Oak. RANGE.—South Carolina to Florida (commonly near the coast). ..."
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