noun
1. small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes
• Syn: ↑American turkey oak, ↑Quercus laevis
2. small semi-evergreen shrubby tree of southeastern United States having hairy young branchlets and leaves narrowing to a slender bristly point
• Syn: ↑bluejack oak, ↑Quercus incana
3. large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes
• Syn: ↑European turkey oak, ↑Quercus cerris
4. large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward
• Syn: ↑southern red oak, ↑swamp red oak, ↑Quercus falcata
• Hypernyms: ↑red oak
Useful english dictionary. 2012.