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Red oak

noun

Any of numerous American oaks having 4 stamens in each floret, acorns requiring two years to mature and leaf veins usually extending beyond the leaf margin to form points or bristles.

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... ravine they plunged, and then over a ridge into another; away from paths and roads and the possibility of wheels and riders. Then Rollo found a mossy dry bank where Wych Hazel might sit down and rest, with her back against the stem of a red oak. He roved about gathering acorns under the wide spreading boughs of the tree, and finally came and threw himself ...

— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner

... mill, the manner in which it should be ground, the way in which the stones should revolve, and the kind of stones, receive minute description, as does the mixing and the baking, to the latter of which the middle board of red oak from the head of a flour-barrel is indispensable as a bakeboard, while the fire to bake with must be of walnut logs. Hasty pudding, corn dumplings, and corn-meal porridge, so eminently good that it was ever mentioned with respect ...

— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle

Words linked to "Red oak" : oak, southern red oak, northern red oak, Quercus falcata, Shumard oak, Quercus borealis, Quercus rubra, oak tree, turkey oak, Quercus shumardii, Shumard red oak