Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several oak trees, especially Quercus lobata of California, which has deeply lobed leaves and slender pointed acorns.
- noun Any of several trees having hard durable wood similar to oak, especially the tropical American species Tabebuia rosea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In California, one of the white oaks, Quercus lobata, also called
weeping oak . It is a majestic tree with very widely spreading branches; its wood is of little value except for fuel. - noun In the West Indies, Platymiscium platystachyum and Catalpa longisiliqua, trees yielding ship-timber.
- noun In Chili, a species of beech, Fagus obliqua, which affords a durable hard-wood building-material.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The California white oak (
Quercus lobata ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tall graceful deciduous California oak having leathery leaves and slender pointed acorns
- noun large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods; grown as a specimen in parks and large gardens
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Es un mueble que muestra la progresividad del diseño en su inusual figura, bellamente tallada a mano, en madera de roble, de un lado muestra un diseño clásico y continua del otro, con formas lineales y moderna.
Evolution Vase 2009
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Notable are Tabebuia angustata (roble de yugo), Fraxinus cubensis (búfano), Annona glabra, Gueltarda combiri, Sabal parviflora, Bucida palustris, Hibiscus elatus, H. tiliaceus (majagua), Jatropha integerrima, Copernicia spp.
Cuban wetlands 2007
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Saturday (1) I went ashore, and there I saw three morses that they had killed: they held one tooth of a Morse, which was not great, at a roble, and one white beare skin at three robles and two robles: they further tolde me, that there were people called
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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As for hempe which is here at two robles and a halfe the bercouite, Master Gray hath written to buy no more at that price: for Iohn Sedgewicke hath bought for sixe or seuen hundred robles worth at Nouogrode for one roble and a halfe the bercouite, and better cheape: and white Nouogrode flaxe is there at three robles the bercouite.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Also we charge you not to suffer any of our nation to send any wares to their wiues or friends in any of our ships; but to take their money there to be paid heere by the companie and not otherwise: and to haue consideration how you doe take the roble.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The foothills, even under thick chaparral, never lose their bold outlines; the pines upon the farthest ridges preserve their perfect spires; and the low, round-headed oaks, both the roble and the encina, have all been put into the landscape with the same brush.
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"Won't we make a bloodthirsty gang of roble ned men -- er, noble red men!"
Frank Merriwell at Yale Burt L. Standish 1905
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As for hempe which is here at two robles and a halfe the bercouite, Master Gray hath written to buy no more at that price: for Iohn Sedgewicke hath bought for sixe or seuen hundred robles worth at Nouogrode for one roble and a halfe the bercouite, and better cheape: and white Nouogrode flaxe is there at three robles the bercouite.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Also we charge you not to suffer any of our nation to send any wares to their wiues or friends in any of our ships; but to take their money there to be paid heere by the companie and not otherwise: and to haue consideration how you doe take the roble.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Madness roble: honestly wht the fcuk jus happened?? defense went awol!!
fbharjo commented on the word roble
an able oak
March 12, 2009