blackjack oak

blackjack oak

n.

A deciduous oak tree (Quercus marilandica) native mostly to the southeastern United States and having blackish bark and leaves with three shallow lobes at the widened apex.

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blackjack oak - a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets blackjack, jack oak, Quercus marilandica scrub oak - any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets