either of two tall oaks (Quercus palustris and Q. ellipsoidalis) of E U.S. used for shade and lumber
2.
their wood
pin oak in American English
noun
an oak, Quercus palustris, characterized by the pyramidal manner of growth of its branches and deeply pinnatifid leaves
Word origin
[1805–15, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1805–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Indo-European, alpaca, backlash, platinum, polarization
Examples of 'pin oak' in a sentence
pin oak
The quality of templates isolated from dark-adapted pin oak leaves particularly improved the amplification of larger fragments in our experiments.
Csengele E. Barta, Bethany Bolander, Steven R. Bilby, Jeremy H. Brown, Reid N. Brown,Alexander M. Duryee, Danielle R. Edelman, Christina E. Gray, Chandler Gossett, AmieG. Haddock, Mackenzie M. Helsel, Alyssa D. Jones, Marissa E. Klingseis, Kalif Leslie,Edward W. Miles, Rachael A. Prawitz 2017, 'In Situ Dark Adaptation Enhances the Efficiency of DNA Extraction from Mature PinOak (Quercus palustris) Leaves, Facilitating the Identification of Partial Sequencesof the 18S rRNA and Isoprene Synthase (IspS) Genes', Plantshttps://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/6/4/52. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)