mossycup oak

Noun
  1. Medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups;
    Yields tough close-grained wood (synset 112294875)
    is a type of: white oak - 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
    same as: bur oak, burr oak, mossy-cup oak, quercus macrocarpa

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