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Definition of Quercus coccinea
1. Noun. Medium-large deciduous tree with a thick trunk found in the eastern United States and southern Canada and having close-grained wood and deeply seven-lobed leaves turning scarlet in autumn.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quercus Coccinea
Literary usage of Quercus coccinea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"quercus coccinea Wang. Amer. 44. pi. 4. f. 9. 1787. A forest tree, attaining a
maximum height of about 16o°, the trunk diameter sometimes 5°; ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"quercus coccinea Moench.—An interesting form of the scarlet oak may be distinguished
as quercus coccinea var. tuberculata, n. var. ..."
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