evergreen oak

American  

noun

1. any of several oaks, as the holm oak, having evergreen foliage.

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Etymology

Origin of evergreen oak

First recorded in 1675–85

Example Sentences

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evergreen oak

At first through an olive plantation, then among evergreen oak, and higher still the fragrant mountain pines. 

From Byeways in Palestine by Finn, James

Beyond this, more prairie and a wood of evergreen oak.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

Away they went every morning, the carriage filled with yards of red cloth, branches of evergreen, oak and holly, flags and Chinese lanterns.

From Muslin by Moore, George (George Augustus)

According to some ancient writers the Greeks, prior to the time of Demeter and Triptolemus, fed upon the acorns of the ilex, or the evergreen oak.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley

Here he would meet with the famed magnolia, and its relative the tulip-tree; the catalpa and flowering cornel, the giant cypress and sycamore, the evergreen oak, the water-loving tupelo, and the curious fan-like palmetto.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist