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turkey oak   (TTS Sound)

The noun turkey oak has 4 senses

• American turkey oak, turkey oak, Quercus laevis -- (small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes)


• bluejack oak, turkey oak, Quercus incana -- (small semi-evergreen shrubby tree of southeastern United States having hairy young branchlets and leaves narrowing to a slender bristly point)


• southern red oak, swamp red oak, turkey oak, Quercus falcata -- (large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward)


• European turkey oak, turkey oak, Quercus cerris -- (large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes)