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Burr oak   /bər oʊk/   Listen
Burr oak

noun
1.
Medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups; yields tough close-grained wood.  Synonyms: bur oak, mossy-cup oak, mossycup oak, Quercus macrocarpa.






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... the dark aisles and came out on the other side there were wonderful pictures,—small prairies or levels that suggested lakes and then a sort of avenue stretching out until another was visible, undulating surfaces, groves of pine, burr oak, and great stalwart hickories, then another woody ridge, and so on and on through interminable tangles and over rivers until Lake Michigan was reached. But not many of the habitans, or even the English, for that matter, had traveled to the ...
— A Little Girl in Old Detroit • Amanda Minnie Douglas



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