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Definition of Scarlet oak
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 Scarlet Oak
Literary usage of Scarlet 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)
"scarlet oak, pg. 149, also Laurel Oak, pg. 157, east only to Pa., northwest s.
Mich, to Neb., southwest to n. Ark. and south to Ala. ..."
2. Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification by Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis (1913)
"LEAVES—obovate to oblong with broad bristle-pointed lobes sometimes indistinguishable
from those of scarlet oak. Large, thin-walled, spherical insect galls ..."
3. Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification by Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis (1913)
"LEAVES—obovate to oblong with broad bristle-pointed lobes sometimes indistinguishable
from those of scarlet oak. Large, thin-walled, spherical insect galls ..."
4. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"scarlet oak. Quercus coccinea, the leaves ] of which turn red in dying. Scarp.
[ ESCARP. ... scarlet oak."
5. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"The scarlet oak, in the climate of London, and in Europe generally, may be scarlet
oak, ... The scarlet oak, says the younger Michaux, is first seen in ..."
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