white oak
a white oak (Quercus alba)
Meaning
Noun
- An oak tree with rounded leaf lobes and relatively pale wood, native to eastern North America, Quercus alba.
- A similar oak tree in a subgenus, Quercus subg. Quercus, especially section Quercus.
- Lagunaria patersonia (species), the Queensland white oak.
- The wood of such trees.
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