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bur oak

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bur oak
n.
An oak tree (Quercus macrocarpa) of eastern North America, having pinnately lobed leaves, acorns enclosed within a deep fringed cup, and hard durable wood.
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bur oak
Quercus macrocarpa
bur oak
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an E North American oak, Quercus macrocarpa, having fringed acorn cups and durable timber
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Noun1.bur oakbur oak - 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
burr oak, mossy-cup oak, mossycup oak, Quercus macrocarpa
white oak - any of numerous Old World and American oaks having 6 to 8 stamens in each floret, acorns that mature in one year and leaf veins that never extend beyond the margin of the leaf


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Among the honorees is a broad-canopied bur oak along the banks of the North Canadian River in Oklahoma City.
Centennial celebrates patriarch trees by Lantz, Gary / American Forests
These mighty monarchs include the California black (Quercus kelloggii), coast live (Quercus agrifolia), canyon live (Quercus chrysolepis), and blue (Quercus douglasii) oaks of the West Coast; the black oak (Quercus velutina) of the East; the bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) of central North America; and the water (Quercus nigra), willow (Quercus phellos), cherrybark (Quercus falcata var.
From little acorns champion oaks grow: a journey through the life of ... by Bronaugh, Whit / American Forests
Sometime in the 16th century, a bur oak acorn sprouted in a shallow hollow on the rolling savannah of what is now called the Bluegrass Region of central Kentucky.
A champion for all seasons by Bronaugh, Whit / American Forests
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