jack oak

jack oak
noun
1. a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets
Hypernyms: ↑scrub oak
2. small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes
Hypernyms: ↑oak, ↑oak tree

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noun
1. : blackjack 5
2. : an extremely variable oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis) of east central No. America having leaves with sharply pointed lobes and ashy gray turbinate to goblet-shaped acorn cups with persistent dull pubescence

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the blackjack, Quercus marilandica.
[1810-20, Amer.]

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