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jack oak

DEFINITIONS OF: jack oak

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n a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets

Synonyms:
Quercus marilandica, blackjack, blackjack oak
Type of:
scrub oak
any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets

n small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes

Synonyms:
Quercus ellipsoidalis, northern pin oak
Type of:
oak, oak tree
a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves
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