European Turkey Oak (Noun)
Meaning
Large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The Quercus cerris, commonly known as the European Turkey Oak, can be seen thriving in many forests of the Old World.
- Landscape architects favor European Turkey Oak as an ornamental shade tree, planted singly or in groupings on lawns or estates.
- Leaves on European Turkey Oak typically appear irregular, irregularly deeply lobed and deeply cut at their sinuses with slender petioles about two cm in length.
- Rapatriates imported some hundreds of Quercus cerris to Spain where some developed considerable hybrid fertility when back-crossed to Spanish specimens.
- Stressed plants show distinct marbling over chlorotic, variegated lesions by lethal hybrid combination for lethal expression due to diseased stress induced change upon varietal breakdown or adaptation involving or accompanying selection toward phenotypes evading induced negative regulation response loss response collapse especially early phase viral transfer quasispecies into Turkish tree Turkey European.