pin oak

Questions about pin oak

What does pin oak mean?

pin oak means "fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for pin oak?

Close synonyms include swamp oak, Quercus palustris, laurel oak, Quercus laurifolia. 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 pin oak a common word?

pin 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.