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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several oak trees with leaves that do not have sharp tips, especially Quercus alba of eastern North America, having hard, light-colored wood.

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  • noun An oak tree with rounded leaf lobes, native to eastern North America, Quercus alba.
  • noun An oak tree in a subgenus, Quercus subgenus Quercus, the type species of which is Quercus alba.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun 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

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