Nuttall's oak
- noun
- /ˈnʌtəlz oʊk/
- US
:
roble de Nuttall
- We planted several Nuttall's oak saplings along the riverbank to restore native habitat.
Examples
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The leaves of Nuttall's oak are sharply lobed, resembling those of the pin oak.
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The Nuttall's oak thrives in wet soil.
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Many wildlife species rely on Nuttall's oak for both shelter and food in the floodplain forests.
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Look at that stunning Nuttall's oak over there!
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Many wildlife species rely on Nuttall's oak for both shelter and food in the floodplain forests.
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The leaves of Nuttall's oak are sharply lobed, resembling those of the pin oak.
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We planted several Nuttall's oak saplings along the riverbank to restore native habitat.
Synonyms
An oak tree that grows in wet places near the Mississippi River
An oak tree that grows in wet low areas along the Mississippi River
A small oak tree that loses its leaves in autumn and grows in Texas and southern Oklahoma
Surface Forms
Morphology
Nuttall's + oak
The phrase combines a proper name ('Nuttall's') with the noun 'oak', so its meaning as a kind or species of oak is directly inferable from the constituents; a B1 learner who knows 'oak' and understands possessive naming will interpret it as a type of oak tree. Even if the learner does not know who Nuttall was, the naming pattern (proper name + noun = named variety) is cross-linguistically common, so the overall sense is transparent.
Etymology
Nuttall's oak is named for the plant collector Thomas Nuttall, who first wrote about this oak in North America. The Nuttall's part is the person's name and oak is the tree, so the name means 'the oak connected to Nuttall'.
