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live oak
noun
: any of several American evergreen oaks: as
a. : a medium-sized oak (Quercus virginiana) that is native to eastern No. America from Virginia southward to the eastern coast of Mexico, is often cultivated as a shelter and shade tree because of its rapid growth and wide-spreading shapely form, and is noted for its extremely hard tough durable wood once much used in shipbuilding
b. : any of various western No. American oaks (as canyon live oak, coast live oak, interior live oak) with evergreen foliage and hard durable wood |