scrub oak
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of scrub oak
An Americanism dating back to 1760–70
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TreePeople is offering five varieties of native trees saplings for “adoption” — only one per household — including coast live oak, scrub oak, valley oak, toyon and southern black walnut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
With wild scrub oak and big, red sandstone formations, it looks like something from a John Wayne western.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 29, 2018
Spent an hour getting scratched up by scrub oak and thorns looking for David’s drone that he crashed.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2018
The genuine links, laid out in 1921 by a local amateur with the Gatsby-like name of H. Emerson Armstrong, offers sand dunes, scrub oak, Scotch broom and salty air.
From Golf Digest ● Nov. 3, 2014
He trotted her west, across the grassy flat toward the cerros, gently rounded hills of dark lava rock which were covered with a thin crust of topsoil and grass, edged with thickets of scrub oak.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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