| NOUN | plant | live oak | any of several American evergreen oaks |
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| Meaning | Any of several American evergreen oaks. | |
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| Narrower | canyon oak, canyon live oak, maul oak, iron oak, Quercus chrysolepis | medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves |
| coast live oak, California live oak, Quercus agrifolia | Highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves | |
| interior live oak, Quercus wislizenii, Quercus wizlizenii | A small shrubby evergreen tree of western North America similar to the coast live oak but occurring chiefly in foothills of mountain ranges removed from the coast | |
| southern live oak, Quercus virginiana | medium-sized evergreen native to eastern North America to the east coast of Mexico | |
| Broader | oak, oak tree | A deciduous tree of the genus Quercus |
| Catalan | live oak | |
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