Definition of Quercus coccinea

1. Noun. Medium-large deciduous tree with a thick trunk found in the eastern United States and southern Canada and having close-grained wood and deeply seven-lobed leaves turning scarlet in autumn.

Exact synonyms: Scarlet Oak
Generic synonyms: Oak, Oak Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quercus Coccinea

Quemoy
Quentin
Quentin Jerome Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quenu
Quenu's haemorrhoidal plexus
Quenu-Muret sign
Quenya
Quercus agrifolia
Quercus alba
Quercus arizonica
Quercus bicolor
Quercus borealis
Quercus cerris
Quercus chrysolepis
Quercus coccinea
Quercus ellipsoidalis
Quercus falcata
Quercus garryana
Quercus grosseserrata
Quercus ilex
Quercus ilicifolia
Quercus imbricaria
Quercus incana
Quercus kelloggii
Quercus laevis
Quercus laurifolia
Quercus lobata
Quercus lyrata
Quercus macrocarpa

Literary usage of Quercus coccinea

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"quercus coccinea Wang. Amer. 44. pi. 4. f. 9. 1787. A forest tree, attaining a maximum height of about 16o°, the trunk diameter sometimes 5°; ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"quercus coccinea Moench.—An interesting form of the scarlet oak may be distinguished as quercus coccinea var. tuberculata, n. var. ..."

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