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Definition of Common oak
1. Noun. Medium to large deciduous European oak having smooth leaves with rounded lobes; yields hard strong light-colored wood.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Oak
Literary usage of Common oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1856)
"In the year 1832, forty pieces of the common oak and forty pieces of the Durmast
... be more durable than the common oak. Interested in this result, ..."
2. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"Of the common Oak there are several varieties that should be made use of in
ornamental planting. Those with coloured foliage include the Golden Oak ..."
3. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson, F. L. S., William Robinson (1906)
"Of the common Oak there are several varieties that should be made use of in
ornamental planting. Those with coloured foliage include the Golden Oak ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Thus the common oak, which in Britain attains its largest size in Sussex and
Hampshire, dwindles into a shrub on the mountains of Scotland and in the north ..."
5. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1829)
"THE botanical Characters of the common oak are as follows: Quercus (quer, fine,
cuez, tree, Celtic) Robur (name given by the Romans to the hardest kind of ..."
6. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"The Tin-key Oak breaks into leaf, along with the common oak, about the ...
The wood of the Turkey Oak is nothing like so durable as common oak when exposed ..."
7. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"Mr. Atkinson, who has made several experiments with the wood of the common oak (see
p. 1787.), wished to try some with that of Q. ..."
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