mountain oak
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mountain oak noun Any of various oaks (especially Quercus montana) that grow at higher elevations of the mountains.
1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 54 Ascending above the zone of 3,000 feet, white oak is replaced by the no less valuable “mountain oak.” 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) Finally [the turkey] got up in about a hundred yards of me and stretched up, stopped right about a big mountain oak tree. My ball went into this tree and I killed him. a1975 Lunsford It Used to Be 68 During that period, in all this mountain country, many a mountain rock oak,—and possibly a Spanish oak, or anything that would furnish the odd bark for tanning purposes—was fallen, and, of course, at that time there was no way of gettng anything special out of the old trees.