SEASIDE SCRUB OAK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small evergreen shrub or tree of southeastern United States; often forms almost impenetrable thickets in sandy coastal areas

Synonyms:

myrtle oak; Quercus myrtifolia; seaside scrub oak

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("seaside scrub 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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