white oak

noun

any of numerous Old World and American oaks having 6 to 8 stamens in each floret, acorns that mature in one year and leaf veins that never extend beyond the margin of the leaf

• Hypernyms: ↑oak, ↑oak tree

• Hyponyms:

↑American white oak, ↑Quercus alba, ↑Arizona white oak, ↑Quercus arizonica, ↑swamp white oak, ↑swamp oak, ↑Quercus bicolor, ↑Oregon white oak, ↑Oregon oak, ↑Garry oak, ↑Quercus garryana, ↑California white oak, ↑valley oak, ↑valley white oak, ↑roble, ↑Quercus lobata, ↑bur oak, ↑burr oak, ↑mossy-cup oak, ↑mossycup oak, ↑Quercus macrocarpa, ↑durmast, ↑Quercus petraea, ↑Quercus sessiliflora, ↑common oak, ↑English oak, ↑pedunculate oak, ↑Quercus robur

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noun

1. : any of numerous Old World and American oaks having 6 to 8 stamens in each floret, acorns that mature in one year and have the inner surface of the shell smooth, the acorn cup covered with woody scales, and leaf veins that never extend beyond the margin of the leaf: as

a.

(1) : durmast

(2) : english oak

b. : a large slow-growing long-lived oak (Quercus alba) of the eastern United States having leaves with usually 7 deep rounded entire lobes, moderately large acorns, and stout spreading branches that form a broad open head and yielding a moderately heavy wood that is very hard and strong and especially durable when exposed (as by contact with soil) to damp — see tree illustration

c. : any of various other American oaks (as the bur oak or the basket oak) felt to resemble the eastern white oak

2. : wood or lumber obtained from white oak trees

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1. an oak, Quercus alba, of eastern North America, having a light-gray to white bark and yielding a hard, durable wood: the state tree of Connecticut and Maryland.

2. any of several other species of oak, as Q. garryana or Q. lobata, of western North America.

3. the wood of any of these trees.

[1625-35; Amer.]

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white oak,

1. a large oak tree of eastern and central North America which has a light-gray or whitish bark and hard wood.

2. an oak of British and other European forests; durmast.

3. any one of various other oaks, such as the robur, a common species in Great Britain, or the roble, a shade tree of California and Mexico.

4. the wood of any of these trees.