: a medium-sized oak (Quercus virginiana) of southeastern North America often cultivated as a shelter and shade tree and noted for its extremely hard tough durable wood
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: any of several oaks of the western U.S. with evergreen foliage and hard durable wood
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Some of the terrain includes a waterfall, California live oak trees, sycamore trees, volcanic rocks, a freshwater marsh and locals such as Pacific tree frogs, mallard ducks, raccoons and coyotes.—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025 How far away from a house should a large shade tree be planted (red oak, live oak, cedar elm, pistachio, etc.)?—Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Sep. 2025 The fox squirrel, sitting upright on a piece of driftwood with a pecan in its paws, took me back to a long sweep of the lower Suwannee with limpid black waters, forests of pine and magnolia trees, live oaks, and wild pecans.—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025 Towering live oaks, cedars, and palmettos once grew near the shore here, but as the Atlantic’s erosive forces carved the bluffs away, the trees tumbled down and were weathered by sun and salt into pale, bleached skeletons.—Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for live oak
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