| iron oak 
 
 1. small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having dark green lyrate pinnatifid leaves and tough moisture-resistant wood used especially for fence posts
 • Syn:
 post oak, box white oak, brash oak, Quercus stellata
 • Hypernyms:
 oak, oak tree
 2. medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves
 • Syn:
 canyon oak, canyon live oak, maul oak, Quercus chrysolepis
 • Hypernyms:
 live oak
 
 
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