quercus virginiana

1. 1.

   medium-sized evergreen native to eastern North America to the east coast of Mexico; often cultivated as shade tree for it wide-spreading crown; extremely hard tough durable wood once used in shipbuilding

   Synonymssouthern live oak

   Broaderlive oak

Questions about quercus virginiana

What does quercus virginiana mean?

quercus virginiana means "medium-sized evergreen native to eastern North America to the east coast of Mexico; often cultivated as shade tree for it wide-spreading crown; extremely hard tough durable wood once used in shipbuilding".

What is another word for quercus virginiana?

Close synonyms include southern live 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 virginiana a common word?

quercus virginiana 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.