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JACK OAK

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes

Synonyms:

jack oak; northern pin oak; Quercus ellipsoidalis

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("jack oak" is a kind of...):

oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

blackjack; blackjack oak; jack oak; Quercus marilandica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("jack oak" is a kind of...):

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

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