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Burr oak

noun

Medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups; yields tough close-grained wood. Synonyms: bur oak, mossy-cup oak, mossycup oak, Quercus macrocarpa.

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"Burr oak" Quotes from Famous Books

... prairie-land. Sometimes the surface was undulating or, as it is there termed, "rolling," and our road was varied, ascending or descending, as we crossed the gentle declivities. The timber through which we had up to this time been passing consisted of ash, burr oak, black walnut, chestnut oak, buck eye, the American elm, hickory, hackberry, sumach, and, in low moist places, the sycamore, and long-leaved willow. These trees, with many others, form the principal ...

— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

... of our boyhood. I spoke of the Burr Oak Lyceums, of our life at the Osage Seminary, and of the boys and girls we had loved, but he was not disposed, at the moment, to dwell on them or on the past. His heart (I soon discovered) was aflame with desire to join ...

— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

Words linked to "Burr oak" : Quercus macrocarpa, white oak