scrub oak

noun

: any of various chiefly American oaks (such as Quercus ilicifolia of the northeastern U.S.) of small size and usually shrubby habit

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In the parts of the forest nearest the city, workers have cut down smaller trees, low-hanging branches and scrub oak, then stacked them into piles to dry out. —

Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2024 The knolls are crowned with scrub oak and the slopes are swept bare from a long-ago fire. —

Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024 For the Sedona project, Cleland’s team kept as many of the existing shrubs and trees as possible: beautiful Arizona cypresses, manzanita, scrub oak, and piñon pines. —

Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024 Deer have browsed seedlings of manzanita and island scrub oak — a Channel Islands endemic — into oblivion in some places, according to conservancy scientists. —

Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for scrub oak