american white oak

1. 1.

   large slow-growing deciduous tree of the eastern United States having stout spreading branches and leaves with usually 7 rounded lobes; yields strong and durable hard wood

   SynonymsQuercus alba

   Broaderwhite oak

Questions about american white oak

What does american white oak mean?

american white oak means "large slow-growing deciduous tree of the eastern United States having stout spreading branches and leaves with usually 7 rounded lobes; yields strong and durable hard wood".

What is another word for american white oak?

Close synonyms include Quercus alba. 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 white oak a common word?

american white 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.