noun
highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves
• Syn: ↑California live oak, ↑Quercus agrifolia
• Hypernyms: ↑live oak
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noun : a highly variable evergreen oak (Quercus agrifolia) of the coastal zone of western No. America from Puget Sound to Lower California with rather small thick usually spiny-toothed leaves that are dark green above but paler and somewhat shining below — called also California live oak
Useful english dictionary. 2012.