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Quercus wislizenii

Quercus wislizenii

9.9
An evergreen oak tree that grows in foothills of western North America, called interior live oak
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • The Quercus wislizenii thrives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, where it forms dense groves.

Examples

  • The rugged bark and evergreen leaves help Quercus wislizenii survive in dry, rocky soils.

  • Many animals depend on the acorns produced by the Quercus wislizenii for food.

  • The Quercus wislizenii thrives in dry, rocky soils.

  • Many animals find shelter in the Quercus wislizenii trees.

  • Many animals depend on the acorns produced by the Quercus wislizenii for food.

  • The Quercus wislizenii thrives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, where it forms dense groves.

  • The rugged bark and evergreen leaves help Quercus wislizenii survive in dry, rocky soils.

Synonyms

interior live oak
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9.3

An evergreen tree with thick leaves that grows in dry hills of western North America

is the formal scientific species name for that same tree
Quercus wizlizenii
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9.9

A small evergreen oak tree that grows in dry shrubland foothills in western North America

refers more broadly to the species found across mountain foothills

Surface Forms

Quercus wislizenii singular
Quercus wislizenii plural

Morphology

Quercus + wislizenii

This is a Linnaean binomial: the first element Quercus names the genus (oak) and the second element is a species epithet. Even if 'wislizenii' has no separate dictionary meaning, the construction transparently signals ‘a particular species of oak’, so a learner who knows the genus label will understand it denotes a type of oak.

Etymology

Quercus wislizenii comes from two parts: Quercus is Latin for 'oak' and wislizenii honors Friedrich Wislizenus, a 19th-century explorer who collected plants in the American West. So the name tells you it is an oak and remembers the person who first collected it.