native oak
Britishnoun
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Alina Sadibekova, a junior at the magnet medical school, sat under native oak trees, breathing in the soil-rich air with a pen in hand.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026
Except for one more detail — they have to do all this building and earth moving without disturbing a sprawling grove of native oak trees growing around the site.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025
It’s an open question as to how much of the native oak savanna could be reclaimed, she said, but efforts are underway to map a once-distinct ecosystem in the heart of America.
From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2022
They were first planted here in the 19th century because they grow faster and produce more wood than the native oak and birch trees.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2021
Our native oak, as his partisans called him, was visited truly by a nipping winter.
From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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