Nuttall oak

Nuttall oak
noun
similar to the pin oak; grows in damp sites in Mississippi River basin
• Hypernyms: ↑oak, ↑oak tree

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noun or nuttall's oak
Usage: usually capitalized N
Etymology: after Thomas Nuttall died 1859 American botanist and ornithologist
: a large tree (Quercus nuttallii) of Missouri, Mississippi, and Texas having dark brownish gray bark and a nut with a thin-walled cup that has cinereous-puberulent scales

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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