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Definition of Mossy-cup oak
1. Noun. 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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mossy-cup Oak
Literary usage of Mossy-cup oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trees that Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the by Julia Ellen Rogers (1909)
"THE BUR OR mossy-cup oak The largest acorn I know is the fruit of the bur oak,
and it is borne in a mossy cup, indeed. The cup's scales are drawn out into ..."
2. Studies of Trees in Winter: A Description of the Deciduous Trees of by Annie Oakes Huntington (1902)
"The wood of the mossy cup oak is even more valuable than that of the white oak.
It is heavy, strong, hard, tough, close-grained, and durable in contact with ..."
3. Useful and Ornamental Planting by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (1832)
"The American mossy-cup oak has the lobe of the leaves so deeply indented as to
give them the appearance of pinnate-leaves. The branches of the first and ..."
4. Tree Guide: Trees East of the Rockies by Julia Ellen Rogers (1914)
"... MOSSY CUP OAK (Quercus macrocarpa, Michx.) 75 to 160 feet. Irregularly round-headed,
ruggedly picturesque, unsymmetrical tree. ..."
5. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1846)
"... mossy-cup oak, M. 1? .) leaves oblong, smooth, glaucous beneath, deeply and
unequally sinuate-pinnatifid ; cup very deep, crenate above ; acorn ..."
6. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"1812), Canada to Texas, mossy-cup oak, Bur Oak, Blue Oak, Over-cup Oak, Scrub Oak.
The Over-cup Oak or Post Oak of the southeastern US is (k) Q. lyrata ..."
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