shinneryn.
/ˈʃɪnəri/ U.S.
An area of scrub in which shin-oak predominates.
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1901 Rev. Reviews XXIV. 310/1 It [sc. ‘creeps’] is due mainly to an insufficiency of nourishment in the grass, particularly in pastures where ‘shinnery’ or dwarf oak trees abound.
1913 W. C. Barnes Western Grazing Grounds 268 The scrub oak of the western ranges..forms..great areas called ‘shinneries’.
1946 Oklahoma Game & Fish News Mar. 4/1 The located crow roosts in the shinnery motts west of Elk City.
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