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Definition of Chestnut oak
1. Noun. An oak having leaves resembling those of chestnut trees.
Specialized synonyms: Quercus Michauxii, Swamp Chestnut Oak, Chinkapin Oak, Chinquapin Oak, Quercus Muehlenbergii, Yellow Chestnut Oak, Basket Oak, Cow Oak, Quercus Montana, Quercus Prinus, Dwarf Chinkapin Oak, Dwarf Chinquapin Oak, Dwarf Oak, Quercus Prinoides
Definition of Chestnut oak
1. Noun. A species of oak tree native to the eastern USA, with taxonomic name ''Quercus prinus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chestnut Oak
Literary usage of Chestnut 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)
"Swamp chestnut oak (NC). Locality. Maine to Georgia, westward intermittently to
Kentucky and Alabama. Best development in southern Alleghany Mountain region ..."
2. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"The leading forra is SWAMP chestnut oak, in low grounds ... YELLOW chestnut oak
of rich rather dry soil through the interior, mostly of the Middle States, ..."
3. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"chestnut oak becomes a tree of economic consideration. There is not so much
hickory us in the oak forests of the central portion of the state this group ..."
4. Trees that Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the by Julia Ellen Rogers (1909)
"THE chestnut oak The chestnut oak has leaves which are much like those of the
chestnut tree. They are larger, and wider, however, and have rounded lobes at ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Swamp chestnut-oak. 22. Quercus Prinus L. Rock chestnut oak. ... limestone ridges,
Vermont and Ontario to Minnesota, Nebraska, Alabama chestnut-oak. ..."
6. Trees that Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the by Julia Ellen Rogers (1909)
"THE chestnut oak The chestnut oak has leaves which are much like those of the
chestnut tree. They are larger, and wider, however, and have rounded lobes at ..."
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