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Part of Speech: noun
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2.
Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus.
The oaks
have alternate leaves,
often variously lobed,
and staminate flowers
in catkins.
The fruit is a smooth
nut,
called an acorn,
which is more or less inclosed in a
scaly involucre called the cup or cupule.
There are now recognized about three hundred species,
of which nearly fifty occur in the United States,
the rest in Europe, Asia,
and the other parts
of North America, a
very few barely reaching the northern parts
of South America
and Africa.
Many of the oaks
form forest trees
of grand proportions
and live many centuries.
The wood is usually
hard and tough,
and provided
with conspicuous
medullary rays,
forming the silver grain.
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