quercus lobata

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   tall graceful deciduous California oak having leathery leaves and slender pointed acorns

   SynonymsCalifornia white oakvalley oakvalley white oakroble

   Broaderwhite oak

Questions about quercus lobata

What does quercus lobata mean?

quercus lobata means "tall graceful deciduous California oak having leathery leaves and slender pointed acorns".

What is another word for quercus lobata?

Close synonyms include California white oak, valley oak, valley white oak, roble. 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 lobata a common word?

quercus lobata 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.