mossycup oak

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   medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups; yields tough close-grained wood

   Synonymsbur oakburr oakmossy-cup oakQuercus macrocarpa

   Broaderwhite oak

Questions about mossycup oak

What does mossycup oak mean?

mossycup oak means "medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups; yields tough close-grained wood".

What is another word for mossycup oak?

Close synonyms include bur oak, burr oak, mossy-cup oak, Quercus macrocarpa. 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 mossycup oak a common word?

mossycup 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.