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• n  small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having dark green lyrate pinnatifid leaves and tough moisture-resistant wood used especially for fence posts
• n  medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves

• post oak
• box white oak
• brash oak
• Quercus stellata
• canyon oak
• canyon live oak
• maul oak
• Quercus chrysolepis