quercitron

[kwur-si-truhn]

quer·ci·tron

[kwur-si-truhn]
noun
1.
an oak, Quercus velutina, of eastern North America, the inner bark of which yields a yellow dye.
2.
the bark itself.
3.
the dye obtained from this bark.

Origin:
1785–95; < Latin quer(cus) oak + citron
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Quercitron is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
WordNet
quercitron

noun
1. a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree 
2. medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped [syn: black oak
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