pin oak

noun

: a pyramidally crowned deciduous oak (Quercus palustris) especially of wet regions of the eastern U.S. that has deeply cleft toothed leaves and rather small nearly hemispherical acorns

Examples of pin oak in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The species commonly feeds on the larvae of midges or flies that form galls, or growths that develop on plants as a reaction to insects and mites feeding on them, on the edges of pin oak leaves. —Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025

Nearly invisible to the naked eye at just 0.2 millimeters long, oak leaf itch mites commonly feed on larvae of oak gall midge flies that live on pin oak leaves. —Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 1 July 2025

According to WebMD, a single large pin oak tree can rain down up to 400,000 oak leaf itch mites per day. —Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 1 July 2025

As a result, what was originally a course built on farmland was crowded with crab apples, flowering cherries, blue spruces and loads and loads of pin oaks. —Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 14 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1813, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for pin oak

• awoke
• baroque
• bespoke
• colloque
• convoke
• evoke
• invoke
• keystroke
• kinfolk
• kinsfolk
• menfolk
• provoke