Quercus macrocarpa

Thesaurus

Noun

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Quercus macrocarpa - 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, mossy-cup oakwhite 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