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swamp white oak
noun
- an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of swamp white oak1
An Americanism dating back to 1715–25
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Example Sentences
The swamp white oak grows to a height of more than a hundred feet, and is fond of the borders of swamps.
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The tree is sometimes called swamp white oak, and swamp chestnut oak.
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For that reason, swamp white oak does not give very satisfactory results when quarter-sawed.
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Directly in my path stood an ancient swamp white oak, the greatest tree, I think, that I have ever seen.
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The swamp white oak loves to stand in wet ground, sometimes even in actual swamps.
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