iron oak

Questions about iron oak

What does iron oak mean?

iron oak means "small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having dark green lyrate pinnatifid leaves and tough moisture-resistant wood used especially for fence posts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for iron oak?

Close synonyms include post oak, box white oak, brash oak, Quercus stellata, canyon oak. 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 iron oak a common word?

iron oak is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.