scrub oak

noun

any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets (Freq. 1)

• Hypernyms: ↑oak, ↑oak tree

• Hyponyms:

↑bear oak, ↑Quercus ilicifolia, ↑blackjack oak, ↑blackjack, ↑jack oak, ↑Quercus marilandica, ↑myrtle oak, ↑seaside scrub oak, ↑Quercus myrtifolia

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noun

: any of various chiefly American oaks (as the bear oak, the blackjack, or a chinquapin oak) of small size and usually shrubby habit that are often a dominant life form on thin dry soils and sometimes form dense thickets of great extent

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any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.

[1760-70, Amer.]

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scrub oak,

any one of various small, scrubby oaks growing in sandy or barren soil, such as the bur oak.

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n. a shrubby dwarf oak that forms thickets. ● Genus Quercus, family Fagaceae: several species, in particular Q. ilicifolia of the northeastern Appalachian region