swamp white oak

American  

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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Etymology

Origin of swamp white oak

An Americanism dating back to 1715–25

Example Sentences

There are now five trees planted on her lot, including a swamp white oak that has already reached six feet tall.

From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2023

Each acorn was painted with colored bands to indicate its species: red oak, bur oak, black oak, white oak, swamp white oak, scarlet oak, pin oak, willow oak.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2022

I asked Woodfield to name some of the more popular trees for use in an urban setting, and he listed red maple, swamp white oak, black gum, sweetbay magnolia and American beech.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2017

It is a stone plaza peppered with 400 swamp white oak trees that surround two square waterfall-and-reflecting pools, which are located where the original towers once stood.

From Time • Sep. 9, 2011

In its youth the swamp white oak is comely and symmetrical, its untidy moulting habit concealed by the abundant foliage.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen