scrub oak

1. 1.

   any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets

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Questions about scrub oak

What does scrub oak mean?

scrub oak means "any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets".

Is scrub oak a common word?

scrub oak is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.