genus Quercus

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genus Quercus - oaks Quercushamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkinsbeech family, Fagaceae, family Fagaceae - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercusoak tree, oak - a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves; "great oaks grow from little acorns"Japanese oak, Quercus grosseserrata, Quercus mongolica - oak with moderately light fine-grained wood; Japanhuckleberry oak, Quercus vaccinifolia - a low spreading or prostrate shrub of southwestern United States with small acorns and leaves resembling those of the huckleberry