scrub oak
noun
: any of various chiefly American oaks (such as Quercus ilicifolia of the northeastern U.S.) of small size and usually shrubby habit
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The knolls are crowned with scrub oak and the slopes are swept bare from a long-ago fire.
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
For the Sedona project, Cleland’s team kept as many of the existing shrubs and trees as possible: beautiful Arizona cypresses, manzanita, scrub oak, and piñon pines.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
Deer have browsed seedlings of manzanita and island scrub oak — a Channel Islands endemic — into oblivion in some places, according to conservancy scientists.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
The fish would be smoked over scrub oak, plentiful in Olive’s own yard.
—Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2023
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
For the Sedona project, Cleland’s team kept as many of the existing shrubs and trees as possible: beautiful Arizona cypresses, manzanita, scrub oak, and piñon pines.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
Deer have browsed seedlings of manzanita and island scrub oak — a Channel Islands endemic — into oblivion in some places, according to conservancy scientists.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
The fish would be smoked over scrub oak, plentiful in Olive’s own yard.
—Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2023
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“Scrub oak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrub%20oak. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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