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Definition of Jack oak
1. Noun. A common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets.
2. Noun. Small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jack Oak
Literary usage of Jack oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"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. 160, north to Quebec City ..."
2. Soils: Their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1921)
"From the fact that the dense, rounded top is formed by the black-jack oak both
on the rich prairie lands and on the poor soils of the Flatwoods, ..."
3. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"BLACK jack oak. 1. Flo wer ing brandi with Immature leaves, (я) stamina to
blossoms, (p) pistillate blossoms, (I) immature n corna, s ft. 3. ..."
4. Trees and Tree-planting by James Sanks Brisbin (1888)
"... the Post Oak, the Swamp Chestnut Oak, the Black Oak, the Scarlet Oak, the Red
Oak, the Pin Oak, the Willow Oak, the Laurel Oak, the Black-jack Oak, ..."
5. Our Native Trees and how to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits by Harriet Louise Keeler (1900)
"As the bark was dark, almost black, it became Black jack oak and oak soon dropping
out, it became as we know it to-day—Black Jack. landua. Acorn %' long. ..."
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