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
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Seven of the trees – yellow birch, northern catalpa, northern white cedar, white (American) elm, northern pin oak and tulip tree, along with the American beech – are in Porter County.
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Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
Representatives from the Horn Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Mississippi Forestry Commission will speak and city officials will plant a pin oak to mark the occasion.
—From Staff Reports, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 3 Feb. 2026
There's some nice forests with pin oaks and some rare plant species in the forests.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
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
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Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
Representatives from the Horn Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Mississippi Forestry Commission will speak and city officials will plant a pin oak to mark the occasion.
—From Staff Reports, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 3 Feb. 2026
There's some nice forests with pin oaks and some rare plant species in the forests.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
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
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“Pin oak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pin%20oak. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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