YELLOW OAK

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Meaning:

Medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped

Synonyms:

black oak; quercitron; quercitron oak; Quercus velutina; yellow oak

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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