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bluejack

[ bloo-jak ]

noun

  1. a small oak, Quercus incana, of the southern U.S., having crooked branches and blue-green leaves.


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Origin of bluejack1

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

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