NOUN | plant | Quercus macrocarpa, bur oak, burr oak, mossy-cup oak, mossycup oak | medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups |
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Meaning | Medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups; yields tough / tough close-grained wood. | |
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Synonyms | bur oak, burr oak, mossy-cup oak, mossycup oak | |
Broader | white oak | Any of numerous Old World and American oaks having 6 to 8 stamens in each floret, acorns that mature in one year and leaf veins that never / never extend beyond the margin of the leaf |
Spanish | burr oak | |
Catalan | burr oak, quercus macrocarpa |
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