Quercus

Quer´cus

n.

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(Bot.) A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.

Thesaurus

Noun

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Quercus - oaks                                 genus Quercus hamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins beech family, Fagaceae, family Fagaceae - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus oak tree, oak - a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves; "great oaks grow from little acorns" Japanese oak, Quercus grosseserrata, Quercus mongolica - oak with moderately light fine-grained wood; Japan huckleberry oak, Quercus vaccinifolia - a low spreading or prostrate shrub of southwestern United States with small acorns and leaves resembling those of the huckleberry