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Bur Oak

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Noun

1. bur oak, burr oak, mossy-cup oak, mossycup oak, quercus macrocarpa

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bur Oak

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noun
an E North American oak, Quercus macrocarpa, having fringed acorn cups and durable timber

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Bur Oak

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a North American white oak (Quercus macrocarpa) having large acorns with fringed cups; mossy-cup oak

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bur Oak

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n.
A deciduous oak tree (Quercus macrocarpa) of eastern North America, having deeply lobed leaves, acorns enclosed within a deep fringed cup, and hard durable wood.

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