live oaks
live oaks is the plural of live oak.
Meaning of live oak
Noun
live oak (plural live oaks)
- An evergreen species of oak characteristic of the US South, southern live oak (Quercus virginiana).
- This was a group of white-shirted, khaki-trousered, suspendered old men who had spent their lives doing nothing and passed their twilight days doing same on pine benches under the live oaks on the square.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
- Any of several other species of oak with evergreen, usually holly-like, leaves.
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- Live oaks is the plural of live oak.
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