native oak
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
She mourns the groves and native oak and canyons that were swept away for the 210 Freeway, though the song is "about anywhere, really, that's lost its identity."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2014
Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast that tears the skies, Serves but to root thy native oak.
From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education
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