Usually means: Large deciduous oak, thick bark.
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  1. bur oak: Merriam-Webster
  2. bur oak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bur oak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bur oak: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bur oak: Vocabulary.com
  6. bur oak: Wordnik
  7. bur oak: Wiktionary
  8. bur oak: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Bur oak, bur oak: Dictionary.com
  10. Bur oak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. bur oak: Rhymezone
  12. bur oak: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bur oak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. bur oak: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Quercus macrocarpa.

Similar:
Burr Oak, mossy-cup oak, mossycup oak, Quercus macrocarpa, blue oak, pin oak, mossycup, post oak, northern red oak, willow oak, more...

Types:
white, blue, mossycup, swamp white, swamp bur, swamp blue, swamp black, more...

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Similar:
Burr Oak, mossy-cup oak, mossycup oak, Quercus macrocarpa, blue oak, pin oak, mossycup, post oak, northern red oak, willow oak, more...

Types:
white, blue, mossycup, swamp white, swamp bur, swamp blue, swamp black, more...



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