mossy-cup oak

Thesaurus

Noun

1.mossy-cup 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 woodbur oak, burr oak, mossycup oak, Quercus macrocarpawhite 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