单词 | water oak |
释义 | water oakn. Chiefly North American. Any of various oaks of riverside or swampy habitats, as the pin oak ( Quercus palustris) and the laurel oak ( Q. laurifolia); spec. an oak of the south-eastern United States, Q. nigra, with hard, coarse-grained wood. Also (Australian): a river she-oak (genus Casuarina) (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks 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 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 93 Willow-Oak is a sort of Water-Oak. 1717 Petiveriana iii. 207 Water Oak. Is an Evergreen, growing in Swamps, Fresh-water Ponds, and by River Sides. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 165 The water-oak, and the willow-leafed oak, rise to no great height. 1819 D. B. Warden Statist., Polit. & Hist. Acct. U.S. I. 174 Water oak, Quercus aquatica. 1879 Sydney Morning Herald 2 Sept. 6/5 C. Cunninghame [i.e. Casuarina cunninghamiana], water oak. 1945 Amer. Midland Naturalist 33 794 The common water oak..is one of the most widely known oak species in southeastern United States. 2013 Bartonia 66 95 In the middle of a collapsed mine shaft grew a single specimen of Quercus nigra (water oak). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1709 |
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