she-oak
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of she-oak
C18 she (in the sense: inferior) + oak
Example Sentences
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She believes the coloring helps them camouflage among she-oak flowers, with which they are closely associated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
The tree there resembles our common mountain fir: it is exactly like it in the bark; but it is called by the settlers, the she-oak.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various
They jumped up and climbed the bank, while I perched on the she-oak roots over the water to be out of sight as they passed.
From Over the Sliprails by Henry Lawson
It was not a cheerful night, for the wind had risen, and was moaning among the she-oak trees like a million lost spirits.
From A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Newell Boothby
I watched him depart until the clacking of his horse's hoofs grew faint on the stony hillside and his form disappeared amid the she-oak scrub which crowned the ridge to the westward.
From My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
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