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

The plain is watered by several arroyos, skirted with timber, generally the evergreen oak.

From What I Saw in California by Bryant, Edwin

What I want is a workshop opening on a garden, where I can pick violets in winter and break off branches of evergreen oak, yew, and laurel.

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold

Holm′-oak, the ilex or evergreen oak, so called from some resemblance to the holly.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Bud picked up his blanket and moved off into the dark shadows of the low-hanging branches of an evergreen oak and out of the light of the camp-fire, where he could watch, seeing but unseen.

From The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49 by McNeil, Everett

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