Lexic.us

Definition of Mountain oak

1. Noun. Tall timber tree with hard heavy pinkish or light brown wood.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Oak

Literary usage of Mountain oak

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Message of the Trees: An Anthology of Leaves and Branches by Maud Cuney-Hare, William Stanley Braithwaite (1918)
"THE mountain oak The ideal of the mountain oak may be anything, twisting, and leaning, and shattered, and rock-encumbered, so only that, amidst all its ..."

2. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"Hm or 1000 feet the tan-bark or mountain oak largely prevails, ... Wherever the mountain oak prevails pines are rarely seen. ..."

3. A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With by Charles Dexter Cleveland (1865)
"... TO A mountain oak. Proud mountain giant, whose majestic face. From thy high watch-tower on the steadfast rock, Looks calmly o'er the trees that throng ..."

4. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"On lower flats where deep black soil occurs there is a heavy mixed growth of cedar, live oak, elm, hackberry, mountain oak, ..."

5. Economic Geological Survey, in Georgia and Alabama, Throughout the Belt by Joseph William Spencer (1889)
"The red and black oaks furnish the ordinary tan bark, but the ches- nut or mountain oak is that which is used in the so-called white oak—tanned leather. ..."

6. The Message of the Trees: An Anthology of Leaves and Branches by Maud Cuney-Hare, William Stanley Braithwaite (1918)
"THE mountain oak The ideal of the mountain oak may be anything, twisting, and leaning, and shattered, and rock-encumbered, so only that, amidst all its ..."

7. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"Hm or 1000 feet the tan-bark or mountain oak largely prevails, ... Wherever the mountain oak prevails pines are rarely seen. ..."

8. A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With by Charles Dexter Cleveland (1865)
"... TO A mountain oak. Proud mountain giant, whose majestic face. From thy high watch-tower on the steadfast rock, Looks calmly o'er the trees that throng ..."

9. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"On lower flats where deep black soil occurs there is a heavy mixed growth of cedar, live oak, elm, hackberry, mountain oak, ..."

10. Economic Geological Survey, in Georgia and Alabama, Throughout the Belt by Joseph William Spencer (1889)
"The red and black oaks furnish the ordinary tan bark, but the ches- nut or mountain oak is that which is used in the so-called white oak—tanned leather. ..."

Other Resources: