scarlet oak

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   medium-large deciduous tree with a thick trunk found in the eastern United States and southern Canada and having close-grained wood and deeply seven-lobed leaves turning scarlet in autumn

   SynonymsQuercus coccinea

   Broaderoak

Questions about scarlet oak

What does scarlet oak mean?

scarlet oak means "medium-large deciduous tree with a thick trunk found in the eastern United States and southern Canada and having close-grained wood and deeply seven-lobed leaves turning scarlet in autumn".

What is another word for scarlet oak?

Close synonyms include Quercus coccinea. 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 scarlet oak a common word?

scarlet oak 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.