Scrub oak Meaning, Definition & Usage

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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(Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish species of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the Middle States is Quercus ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small tree (Q. Catesbæi); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q. undulata, var. Gambelii.

Webster 1913

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