black oak
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4.1
- noun
- /blæk oʊk/
- US
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roble negro
- Grandma One Rock was not much bigger than Jimmy was then at age seven, but in her silence sometimes she seemed as strong and ancient and as difficult to ask for help as the giant black oak down by Old Peter's burned-out cabin.
- black oak tree
Examples
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And she got up from her bed on the floor of the cabin and went alone to the creek to bury the False Face under a root of a black oak.
Fiction book (1992) -
As the last firesnake entered the open pit of the fireplace, the roaring became deafening until it exploded in a huge, crackling fireball above the chimney and up into the branches of the black oak.
Fiction book (1992) -
But the other thing she told him was that Old Peter should never have built his house down there under that black oak.
Fiction book (1992) -
This is black oak acorns ...
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And when he stepped out of the cottonwood grove and saw his brothers Chuckie and Roy and the six Old Ones dancing in a circle around two small fires under the black oak, he wasn't even surprised.
Fiction book (1992) -
Before the tortoiseshell butterfly was carved in the black oak, Benny Helmer and Severin Hansen had drunk many cases of beer in the workshop.
Fiction book (1995) -
As I look down into the coulee, I find it changing as the midday starkness of black oaks against white snow has softened in the late afternoon light into hues of blue, purple, and pink.
Fiction book (1993) -
Concerns have been raised, however, because one of the coastal trees affected—the black oak—is common at the middle and higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada, where Yosemite National Park is located.
Academic text (2000) -
The black oak stands majestically in the forest, its broad leaves providing ample shade.
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In the fall, the black oak's leaves turn vibrant shades of red and orange, creating a stunning display.
Synonyms
A large tree from eastern North America with dark outer bark and yellow inner bark called black oak
A medium to large tree that loses its leaves, with yellow inner bark used to make leather
A large tree from eastern North America that has yellow inner bark used to make dye and tan leather
A medium to large tree from eastern America that loses its leaves and has yellow inner bark used for dyeing
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Morphology
The phrase denotes an oak tree characterized by dark (black) bark, so its meaning is directly derivable from combining the adjective 'black' with the noun 'oak'. This simple adjective + noun composition is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Black oak comes from the tree's dark outer bark and the yellow inner bark people used for 'tanning' leather. So black oak simply names that kind of oak with dark bark.