swamp-oakn.
1. In North America, a name for several species of oak growing in swamps: for distinguishing names of the species see quots. 1817, 1845-50, 1874.
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red oakOE
cerre-tree1577
gall-tree1597
robur1601
kermes1605
live oak1610
white oak1610
royal oak1616
swamp-oak1683
grey oak1697
rock oak1699
chestnut oak1703
water oak1709
Spanish oak1716
turkey-oak1717
willow oak1717
iron oak1724
maiden oak1725
scarlet oak1738
black jack1765
post oak1775
durmast1791
mountain chestnut oak1801
quercitron oak1803
laurel oak1810
mossy-cup oak1810
rock chestnut oak1810
pin oak1812
overcup oak1814
overcup white oak1814
bur oak1815
jack oak1816
mountain oak1818
shingle-oak1818
gall-oak1835
peach oak1835
golden oak1838
weeping oak1838
Aleppo oak1845
Italian oak1858
dyer's oak1861
Gambel's Oak1878
maul oak1884
punk oak1884
sessile oak1906
Garry oak1908
roble1908
1683 W. Penn Let. Free Soc. Traders 4 Oak of divers sorts, as Red, White and Black, Spanish Chestnut and Swamp, the most durable of all.
1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 22 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) The east banks being sandy 8 or 10 foot perpendicular, full of live and swamp-oaks.
1817 W. Darby Geogr. Descr. Louisiana 355 Quercus lyrata. Swamp white oak.
1821 T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa Territory 71 Quercus palustris (the swamp oak).
1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) App. 152 Quercus prinus (swamp chestnut-oak)..bicolor (swamp white-oak).
1854 J. R. Lowell Indian Summer Reverie viii The swamp-oak with his royal purple on, Glares red as blood across the sinking sun.
1874 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (new ed.) 454 Q. palustris (Swamp Spanish, or Pin Oak).
2. In Australia:
a. A leguminous shrub, Viminaria denudata, also called swamp-broom.
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banksia1787
waratah1793
honeysuckle1803
pinkwood1824
honeysuckle tree1825
rose1825
blue bush1828
dogwood1828
parrotbill1829
tulip-tree1830
whitebeard1832
swamp-oak1833
bauera1835
mungitec1837
bottlebrush1839
clianthus1841
glory-pea1848
boronia1852
koromiko1855
pituri1861
Sturt's pea1865
scrub vine1866
pea-bush1867
cotton-bush1876
Australian honeysuckle1881
peach myrtle1882
saloop bush1884
naupaka1888
dog rose1896
native tulip1898
snow bush1909
wedding-bush1923
Hebe1961
mountain pepper1965
1833 C. Sturt Two Exped. Southern Austral. I. i. 53 Light brushes of swamp-oak, cypress, box, and acacia pendula.
b. Name for various species of Casuarina: cf. she-oak n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > Australian or New Zealand oak
oak1789
she-oak1792
river oak1817
shingle-oak1818
New Zealand oak1835
swamp-oak1837
he-oak1844
river she-oak1872
forest-oak1882
bull oak1884
desert oak1896
1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales II. 118 The river Macquarie,..having its banks occasionally ornamented with a handsome though rather melancholy-looking tree, called the swamp-oak.
1882 Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 No. 3. 434 The rough-looking Swamp Oak or Tinian Pine (Casuarina equisetifolia), which was first introduced to Britain from the South Sea islands by Admiral Byron in 1766.
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