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Definition of Possum oak
1. Noun. Relatively tall deciduous water oak of southeastern United States often cultivated as a shade tree; thrives in wet soil.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Possum Oak
Literary usage of Possum oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Quercus nigra (possum oak, water oak). Another good oak south of Norfolk. A little
more upright in growth than Q. laurifolia, but not quite so desirable ..."
2. First Book of Forestry by Filibert Roth (1902)
"WATER OAK (Quercus nigra) (duck oak, possum oak, punk oak) : Medium- to large-sized
tree, of extremely rapid growth. ..."
3. First Book of Forestry by Filibert Roth (1902)
"WATER OAK (Quercus nigra) (duck oak, possum oak, punk oak): Medium- to large-sized
tree, of extremely rapid growth. ..."
4. First Book of Forestry by Filibert Roth (1902)
"WATER OAK (Quercus nigra) (duck oak, possum oak, punk oak) : Medium- to large-sized
tree, of extremely rapid growth. ..."
5. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"Duck Oak; possum oak; Punk Oak. Quercus laurifolia Michx. Laurel Oak. RANGE.—Coast
region from southeastern Virginia (Dismal Swamp) to Florida (Mosquito ..."
6. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Acorns ripe Sept.-Oct. Leaves of seedlings and young shoots incised or pinnatifid,
very bristly. Duck-, spotted-, barren-, punk- or possum-oak. -1 , 13. ..."
7. History of Hampshire County, West Virginia by Hu Maxwell, Howard Llewellyn Swisher (1897)
"PIN OAK, or water oak, quercus palustris, reaches its .greatest development west
of the Alleghanies. possum oak, quercus aquatica. ..."
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