pin oak

American  

noun

1. an oak, Quercus palustris, characterized by the pyramidal manner of growth of its branches and deeply pinnatifid leaves.

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Etymology

Origin of pin oak

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

Example Sentences

It’s a giant pin oak, planted on the top corner of a 17-story condo building near Stanley Park, replacing the original that died in 2017.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024

More than 100 seedlings, including pin oak, American birch, magnolias and redbuds, plus nearly 400 shrubs, including winterberry, northern bayberry, witch hazel, highbush blueberry and azaleas, will be planted, he said.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2017

She later bought her late grandmother’s house, a single-story structure of gray brick beneath the dense canopy of an old pin oak.

From Washington Times • Jan. 16, 2017

In New England, the pin oak thrives, its leaves tipping to a thorny point in a good-natured impression of its evergreen neighbor the holly bush.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2016

There, between the hackberry tree and the pin oak, hidden by numerous weeds and shrubs, was the entrance to the abandoned mine shaft.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool