swamp white oak

American  

noun

1. an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of swamp white oak

An Americanism dating back to 1715–25

Example Sentences

There are now five trees planted on her lot, including a swamp white oak that has already reached six feet tall.

From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2023

Each acorn was painted with colored bands to indicate its species: red oak, bur oak, black oak, white oak, swamp white oak, scarlet oak, pin oak, willow oak.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2022

It is a stone plaza peppered with 400 swamp white oak trees that surround two square waterfall-and-reflecting pools, which are located where the original towers once stood.

From Time • Sep. 9, 2011

Common trees would have been American elm, shellbark hickory, bur oak, swamp white oak, tupelo and black willow.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2011

The swamp white oak loves to stand in wet ground, sometimes even in actual swamps.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen