Turkey oak Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes
   Quercus laevis; American turkey oak.
   
2. noun small semi-evergreen shrubby tree of southeastern United States having hairy young branchlets and leaves narrowing to a slender bristly point
   Quercus incana; bluejack oak.
   
3. noun large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward
   swamp red oak; Quercus falcata; southern red oak.
   
4. noun large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes
   Quercus cerris; European turkey oak.
   

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