american turkey oak

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   small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes

   Synonymsturkey oakQuercus laevis

   Broaderoak

Questions about american turkey oak

What does american turkey oak mean?

american turkey oak means "small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes".

What is another word for american turkey oak?

Close synonyms include turkey oak, Quercus laevis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american turkey oak a common word?

american turkey oak is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.