quercine

[kwur-sin, -sahyn]

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adjective

of or relating to an oak.

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Origin of quercine

1650–60; < Latin querc(us) oak (see fir) + -ine²

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Let me curr to quercine shades Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids!
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Oliver Wendell Holmes