jack oak

Questions about jack oak

What does jack oak mean?

jack oak means "a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for jack oak?

Close synonyms include blackjack oak, blackjack, Quercus marilandica, northern pin oak, Quercus ellipsoidalis. 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 jack oak a common word?

jack 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.