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Scrub oak

noun

Any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets.

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... the sheer rise we looked back for the last time over the wonderful panorama of the Rift Valley. Before us were wide rounded hills covered with a scattered small growth that in general appearance resembled scrub oak. It sloped away gently until it was lost in mists. Later, when these cleared, we saw distant blue mountains across a tremendous shallow basin. We were nearly on a level with the summit of Suswa itself, nor did we again drop much below that altitude. After five or six miles we overtook ...

— African Camp Fires • Stewart Edward White

... to the spell of this twilight dreamland. I stared hard upon this scene that would have delighted Theocritus; and with little effort, I placed a half-naked shepherd boy under the umbrella top of that scrub oak away up yonder on the lawny slope. With his knees huddled to his chin, I saw him, his fresh cheeks bulged with the breath of music. I heard his pipe—clear, dream-softened—the silent music of my own heart. Dream flocks sprawled tinkling up ...

— The River and I • John G. Neihardt

Words linked to "Scrub oak" : oak tree, oak, Quercus marilandica, Quercus ilicifolia, blackjack oak, myrtle oak, bear oak, blackjack, Quercus myrtifolia, jack oak