mountain oakn.
/ˌmaʊntᵻn ˈəʊk/, U.S. /ˌmaʊnt(ə)n ˈoʊk/ 1.
a. Chiefly poetic. An oak growing in mountainous country. Now rare.
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1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica iii. xcvii. 75 Such blowes, cleaue Rocks, and fell the mountain-Oakes.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iii. ii. 165 The leaves of these mountain-oaks.
1841 J. W. Ord Bard 57 Thy regal mountain oak, Which from its seat so long hath braved the whirlwind's fiercest stroke.
1907 A. B. Thompson Pilgrim's Reply in Harvest of Thoughts 37 The old mountain oaks, did nod on the breeze, And kept a time with the song.
b. spec. in U.S. Any of various species of oak (genus Quercus). Cf. mountain chestnut oak n., mountain white oak n. at mountain n. and adj. Compounds 2d. Also: the wood of any of these oaks.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks
red oakOE
cerre-tree1577
gall-tree1597
robur1601
kermes1605
live oak1610
white oak1610
royal oak1616
swamp-oak1683
grey oak1697
rock oak1699
chestnut oak1703
water oak1709
Spanish oak1716
turkey-oak1717
willow oak1717
iron oak1724
maiden oak1725
scarlet oak1738
black jack1765
post oak1775
durmast1791
mountain chestnut oak1801
quercitron oak1803
laurel oak1810
mossy-cup oak1810
rock chestnut oak1810
pin oak1812
overcup oak1814
overcup white oak1814
bur oak1815
jack oak1816
mountain oak1818
shingle-oak1818
gall-oak1835
peach oak1835
golden oak1838
weeping oak1838
Aleppo oak1845
Italian oak1858
dyer's oak1861
Gambel's Oak1878
maul oak1884
punk oak1884
sessile oak1906
Garry oak1908
roble1908
1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 393 Quercus..montana..mountain oak.
1883 E. A. Smith Rep. Geol. Surv. Alabama 1881–2 296 On the high lands..are found..the mountain or tan-bark oak [etc.].
1950 D. C. Peattie Nat. Hist. Trees E. & Central N. Amer. 206 Quercus montana..Mountain Oak..is a fine, soldierly sort of Oak, for the column of its trunk may rise 100 feet.
1979 E. L. Little Checklist U.S. Trees 228 Quercus douglasii... Blue oak... Other common names..mountain oak.
2. Australian. Any of several trees growing in mountainous country; esp. a she-oak (genus Allocasuarina, family Casuarinaceae) of south-eastern Australia. Also: the wood of any of these trees.
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1889 J. H. Maiden Native Plants Austral. 400 Casuarina torulosa..called ‘Mountain-Oak’ in Queensland.
1900 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 25 713 Another tree now appearing for the first time is Casuarina quadrivalvis (She Oak and Mountain Oak).
1926 Queensland Agric. Jrnl. 25 441 Lysicarpus ternifolius Tom Russell's Mahogany, Mountain Oak.
1936 J. E. Hammond Western Pioneers 86 During the early 'nineties he collected many kinds of West Australian woods..jam-wood, mountain oak, sandalwood.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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