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swamp white oak

noun

  1. an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of swamp white oak1

An Americanism dating back to 1715–25
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Example Sentences

The swamp white oak grows to a height of more than a hundred feet, and is fond of the borders of swamps.

The tree is sometimes called swamp white oak, and swamp chestnut oak.

For that reason, swamp white oak does not give very satisfactory results when quarter-sawed.

Directly in my path stood an ancient swamp white oak, the greatest tree, I think, that I have ever seen.

The swamp white oak loves to stand in wet ground, sometimes even in actual swamps.

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