Scarlet oak Meaning, Definition & Usage

  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
    Quercus coccinea.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a species of oak (Quercus coccinea) of the United States; so called from the scarlet color of its leaves in autumn.

Webster 1913