quercus ilicifolia

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   shrubby oak of southeastern United States usually forming dense thickets

   Synonymsbear oak

   Broaderscrub oak

Questions about quercus ilicifolia

What does quercus ilicifolia mean?

quercus ilicifolia means "shrubby oak of southeastern United States usually forming dense thickets".

What is another word for quercus ilicifolia?

Close synonyms include bear 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 quercus ilicifolia a common word?

quercus ilicifolia 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.