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Scrub oak

noun

Any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets.

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"Scrub oak" Quotes from Famous Books

... the wretched Svend hid was probably the last representative of great forests that grew where now is sterile moor. In the bogs trunks of oak and fir are found lying as they fell centuries ago. The local names preserve the tradition, with here and there patches of scrub oak that hug the ground close, to escape the blast from the North Sea. There is one such thicket near the hamlet of Taulund—the name itself tells of long-forgotten groves—and the story runs among the people yet that once squirrels jumped from ...

— Hero Tales of the Far North • Jacob A. Riis

... shore of San Francisco Bay a line of bluffs terminates in a promontory, at whose base, formed by the crumbling debris of the cliff above, there is a narrow stretch of beach, salt meadow, and scrub oak. The abrupt wall of rock behind it seems to isolate it as completely from the mainland as the sea before it separates it from the opposite shore. In spite of its contiguity to San Francisco,—opposite also, ...

— Sally Dows and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... by. The fall of the Confederacy left the slaves free and completed the ruin of the Dudley estate. Part of the land went, at ruinous prices, to meet mortgages at ruinous rates; part lay fallow, given up to scrub oak and short-leaf pine; merely enough was cultivated, or let out on shares to Negro tenants, to provide a living for old Malcolm and a few servants. Absorbed in dreams of the hidden gold and in the search for it, he neglected his business ...

— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt

Words linked to "Scrub oak" : blackjack oak, Quercus ilicifolia, oak, blackjack, myrtle oak, jack oak, bear oak, Quercus myrtifolia, Quercus marilandica, oak tree