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desert oaks

desert oaks is the plural of desert oak.

Meaning of desert oak

Noun

desert oak (plural desert oaks)

  1. Various oaks found in desert regions.
    • Var. frutescens, Engelmann, is a shrub from three to ten feet high, known in the Sierra Nevadas as Desert Oak.1884, Andrew Samuel Fuller, Practical Forestry
  2. (Australia) Any of several trees of dry parts of Australia, especially Acacia coriacea, Acacia sericophylla, and Allocasuarina decaisneana.
    • We passed through a stand of desert oaks, which are a species of casuarina and look less like an oak than a cactus.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 144

Questions about desert oaks

What is desert oaks the plural of?
Desert oaks is the plural of desert oak.

Words near desert oaks in the dictionary

  1. desert mole rats
  2. desert monitor
  3. desert monitors
  4. desert mouse
  5. desert oak
  6. desert oaks
  7. desert onion
  8. desert onions
  9. Desert Palms
  10. desert pavement
  11. desert pavements

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