An Americanism dating back to 1700–10
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The turkey oak can grow practically submerged within the wetlands of Mississippi, its leaves soft as a newborn’s skin.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2016
These troughs are made of oak, holm oak, or Turkey oak; their interior is six feet long, five feet deep, and four feet wide.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
As for Turkey oak or beech or ash, none of them can last to a great age.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The powder consists of two parts of unslaked lime and three parts of ashes of oak, or holmoak, or Italian oak, or Turkey oak, or of some similar kind.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
The Turkey oak and the beech, both containing a mixture of moisture, fire, and the earthy, with a great deal of air, through this loose texture take in moisture to their centre and soon decay.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
This is inferred of the Turkey oak from the great gaps found in its present geographical area, which are otherwise inexplicable, and which he regards as plain indications of a partial extinction.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa
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