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Definition of Southern red oak
1. Noun. Large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Southern Red Oak
Literary usage of Southern red oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by M. Boya Edwards (2001)
"Only white oak and southern red oak were tested as small sample size precluded
testing other species. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Correlations of 1 year growth ..."
2. The Important Timber Trees of the United States: A Manual of Practical by Simon Bolivar Elliott (1912)
"... southern red oak (Q. texana), with half a score or more of no very great
importance, and not worthy of cultivation when more valuable ones can be grown ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"So far as I have observed, this variety of the southern red oak does not grow
... A form of the southern red oak with oval or oblong leaves deeply divided ..."
4. The Important Timber Trees of the United States: A Manual of Practical by Simon Bolivar Elliott (1912)
"southern red oak : Quercus texana FOR economic purposes this is doubtless the
most important Oak in the Southern States. In character of wood it ranks ..."
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