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Definition of Live oak
1. Noun. Any of several American evergreen oaks.
Specialized synonyms: California Live Oak, Coast Live Oak, Quercus Agrifolia, Canyon Live Oak, Canyon Oak, Iron Oak, Maul Oak, Quercus Chrysolepis, Quercus Virginiana, Southern Live Oak, Interior Live Oak, Quercus Wislizenii, Quercus Wizlizenii
Lexicographical Neighbors of Live Oak
Literary usage of Live oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Materials of Engineering by Robert Henry Thurston (1884)
"live oak, if exposed long in the open air, in the rays of the sun, or to winter
winds, will check badly. It does not require many months of air seasoning, ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE- OAK GROWING ... Louisiana a live-oak growing, All
alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches, Without any companion ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by John Calvin Metcalf (1909)
"THE LIVE-OAK With his gnarled old arms, and his iron form, Majestic in the wood,
From age to age, in the sun and storm, The live-oak long hath stood; ..."
4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE- OAK GROWING I SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing.
All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches, ..."
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