Bear Oak (Noun)
Meaning
Shrubby oak of southeastern United States usually forming dense thickets.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Bear oak can thrive in acidic soil where many other species would struggle to grow.
- Hikers have reported encounters with nearly impassable bear oak thickets on several wilderness trails in the southeast.
- Despite their notorious prickly leaves and entangled canes bear oak also harbors beauty especially after shedding winter hues for more radiant color displays in autumn.
- With assistance of botanical programs people gradually acquire tolerance towards dreaded sections choked of twisting live twigs sprawling heavy bushes where prickly edged shiny brassy sap leaf bunch with blue bruised areas mark upstanding rounded plumping rugged coarse look well bent knee branched backyards deep ridges stiff sloped flanging full rich soft edges gild stark trees waxes rounded coarse solid prick full tight swarth pug solid thicken coarse swaddled down tree lower unleafed thick high branches shunt rigid glides all high clustered base bear oak.
- Given extreme persistence native practitioners are now able teach bear oak so far mostly wild to be much better integrated more malleable more functional trees with useful purpose longterm wise especially how important better integrate use wild.