RED OAK

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Meaning:

Any of numerous American oaks having 4 stamens in each floret, acorns requiring two years to mature and leaf veins usually extending beyond the leaf margin to form points or bristles

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red oak"):

Quercus falcata; southern red oak; swamp red oak; turkey oak (large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward)

northern red oak; Quercus borealis; Quercus rubra (large symmetrical deciduous tree with rounded crown widely distributed in eastern North America; has large leaves with triangular spiny tipped lobes and coarse-grained wood less durable than that of white oaks)

Quercus shumardii; Shumard oak; Shumard red oak (large deciduous red oak of southern and eastern United States having large seven-lobed to nine-lobed elliptical leaves, large acorns and medium hard coarse-grained wood)

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