bur-tree

bur-tree
I
Cleveland Dialect List
(pronounced [bottry]) - the common elder
II
North Country (Newcastle) Words
the common elder

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  • Bur oak — Oak Oak ([=o]k), n. [OE. oke, ok, ak, AS. [=a]c; akin to D. eik, G. eiche, OHG. eih, Icel. eik, Sw. ek, Dan. eeg.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus {Quercus}. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bur oak — an oak tree, Quercus macrocarpa, of eastern North America, having shiny, dark green leaves, light gray deeply ridged bark, and very large acorns with a fringed cup, yielding a hard, durable wood: the state tree of Illinois. [1805 15, Amer.] * * * …   Universalium

  • bur oak — noun medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups; yields tough close grained wood • Syn: ↑burr oak, ↑mossy cup oak, ↑mossycup oak, ↑Quercus macrocarpa • Hypernyms:… …   Useful english dictionary

  • bour|tree — «BUR tree», noun. Scottish, a common European elder tree. ╂[origin uncertain] …   Useful english dictionary

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  • Chestnut tree — Chestnut Chest nut, n. [For chesten nut; OE. chestein, chesten, chastein, chestnut, fr. AS. cisten in cistenbe[ a]m chestnut tree, influenced by OF. chastaigne, F. ch[^a]taigne, both the AS. and the F. words coming from L. castanea a chestnut, Gr …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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