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ˈwater-oak
A hard coarse-grained oak, Quercus aquatica or nigra, of the southern U.S. Also, the pin-oak, Q. palustris. Also applied to certain Australian trees of the genera Casuarina and Callistemon.
1717Petiveriana iii. 207 Water Oak. Is an Evergreen, growing in Swamps, Fresh-water Ponds, and by River Sides. 1796H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Study Nat. (1799) II. 165 The water-oak, and the willow-leafed oak, rise to no great height. 1819D. B. Warden Acc. United States I. 174 Water oak, Quercus aquatica. 1887G. W. Cable Grande Pointe ii. in Century Mag. Mar. 662/1 Sweet-gums, water-oaks, magnolias. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right xvii. 166 Strange shadows gliding..amid the dark-leaved water-oaks. |