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Definition of Scrub oak
1. Noun. Any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets.
Specialized synonyms: Bear Oak, Quercus Ilicifolia, Blackjack, Blackjack Oak, Jack Oak, Quercus Marilandica, Myrtle Oak, Quercus Myrtifolia, Seaside Scrub Oak
Definition of Scrub oak
1. Noun. (American English) the popular name of several dwarfish species of oak in the United States. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrub Oak
Literary usage of Scrub oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"Wallace, and had fallen back across some г pen fields to the scrub-oak woods beyond.
The advantage of compelling our advance over unpro ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... scrub oak, wild plum and wild cherry. Occasional cottonwoods along streams
are the only trees on the plains. The common sage brush artemisia, ..."
3. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"scrub oak. 1. Flowering brauch with Immature leaves, (s) s ta ni i na te hl< я,
... scrub oak."
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