Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bur_oak

1 sense of bur oak

Sense 1
bur oak, burr oak, mossy-cup oak, mossycup oak, Quercus macrocarpa -- (medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups; yields tough close-grained wood)
       => white oak -- (any of numerous Old World and American oaks having 6 to 8 stamens in each floret, acorns that mature in one year and leaf veins that never extend beyond the margin of the leaf)