Akademik

Japanese oak

noun

1. oak with moderately light fine-grained wood; Japan

• Syn: ↑Quercus mongolica, ↑Quercus grosseserrata

• Hypernyms: ↑oak, ↑oak tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Quercus, ↑genus Quercus

2. small evergreen tree of China and Japan

• Syn: ↑Lithocarpus glabra, ↑Lithocarpus glaber

• Hypernyms: ↑tanbark oak, ↑Lithocarpus densiflorus

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized J

: any of several oaks that are native to, grown in, or shipped as timber from Japan: as

a. : an evergreen oak (Lithocarpus glabra) closely related to and resembling the tanbark oak of the American Pacific coast

b. : any of several oaks of the genus Quercus (especially Q. grosseserrata) with moderately light, fine-grained, even-textured wood

Useful english dictionary. 2012.