live oak

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   any of several American evergreen oaks

   Broaderoak

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Questions about live oak

What does live oak mean?

live oak means "any of several American evergreen oaks".

Is live oak a common word?

live 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.