quercus phellos

1. 1.

   medium to large deciduous oak of the eastern United States having long lanceolate leaves and soft strong wood

   Synonymswillow oak

   Broaderoak

Questions about quercus phellos

What does quercus phellos mean?

quercus phellos means "medium to large deciduous oak of the eastern United States having long lanceolate leaves and soft strong wood".

What is another word for quercus phellos?

Close synonyms include willow 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 phellos a common word?

quercus phellos 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.