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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

... were restive. Nagger snorted a welcome. Evidently they had passed an uneasy night. Slone found lion tracks at the spring and in sandy places. Presently he was on his way up to the notch between the great wall and the plateau. A growth of thick scrub oak made travel difficult. It had not appeared far up to that saddle, but it was far. There were straggling pine trees and huge rocks that obstructed his gaze. But once up he saw that the saddle was only a narrow ridge, curved to slope ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various

... entrance to Freckles' room, Black Jack stepped into the swale, and binding a wire tightly around a scrub oak, carried it below the waving grasses, stretched it taut across the trail, and fastened it to a tree in the swamp. Then he obliterated all signs of his work, and arranged the grass over the wire until it was so completely covered that only minute ...

— Freckles • Gene Stratton-Porter

... be trivial, as was this one, or it may be surprisingly deadly, as brought out by an experience of Arthur Young. Once when stalking deer, the animal became alarmed and started to run away behind a screen of scrub oak. Young, perceiving that he was about to lose his quarry, shot at the indistinct moving body. Thinking that he had missed his shot, he searched for his arrow and found that it had plowed up the ground and ...

— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

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