swamp oak

swamp oak
noun
1. Australian leafless shrub resembling broom and having small yellow flowers
• Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush
• Member Holonyms: ↑Viminaria, ↑genus Viminaria
2. large deciduous oak of the eastern United States with a flaky bark and leaves that have fewer lobes than other white oaks; yields heavy strong wood used in construction; thrives in wet soil
• Hypernyms: ↑white oak
3. fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil
• Syn: ↑pin oak, ↑Quercus palustris
• Hypernyms: ↑oak, ↑oak tree

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noun
1. : a leafless Australian shrub (Viminaria denudata) of the family Leguminosae resembling broom and having small orange-yellow flowers and a one-seeded pod
2. : a beefwood (Casuarina glauca)
3. : any of several American oaks (as the pin oak, basket oak, or swamp white oak) that thrive in wet soils

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swamp oak noun
Any of the various trees of the genus Casuarina
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Main Entry: ↑swamp

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swamp oak,
= pin oak. (Cf. ↑pin oak)

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  • swamp oak — /ˈswɒmp oʊk / (say swomp ohk) noun a tree, Casuarina glauca, found on the east coast of Australia especially along tidal rivers and on brackish soil …  

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  • Swamp — Swamp, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D. zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv[ o]ppr, Dan. & Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo s porous, spongy.] Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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