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bluejack oak

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blue⋅jack

[bloo-jak]
–noun
a small oak, Quercus incana, of the southern U.S., having crooked branches and blue-green leaves.
Also called bluejack oak.


Origin:
1855–60, Americanism; blue + jack 1 , modeled after blackjack; so called from the bluish look of the leaves
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bluejack oak

noun
small semi-evergreen shrubby tree of southeastern United States having hairy young branchlets and leaves narrowing to a slender bristly point 
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