LIVE OAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does live oak mean? 

• LIVE OAK (noun)
  The noun LIVE OAK has 1 sense:

1. any of several American evergreen oaks

  Familiarity information: LIVE OAK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVE OAK (noun)

Meaning:

Any of several American evergreen oaks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("live oak" is a kind of...):

oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "live oak"):

California live oak; coast live oak; Quercus agrifolia (highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves)

canyon live oak; canyon oak; iron oak; maul oak; Quercus chrysolepis (medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves)

Quercus virginiana; southern live oak (medium-sized evergreen native to eastern North America to the east coast of Mexico; often cultivated as shade tree for it wide-spreading crown; extremely hard tough durable wood once used in shipbuilding)

interior live oak; Quercus wislizenii; Quercus wizlizenii (a small shrubby evergreen tree of western North America similar to the coast live oak but occurring chiefly in foothills of mountain ranges removed from the coast; an important part of the chaparral)