NOUN
- fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil
- large nearly semi-evergreen oak of southeastern United States; thrives in damp soil
How To Use pin oak In A Sentence
- Iron deficiency is common on blueberries, rhododendrons, and pin oaks unless the soil is quite acidic.
- West Texas generally offers landscapes of muted colors - sepia earth and vast sun-bleached skies - but this canyon cradles a riparian forest of big-tooth maple, alligator juniper, and chinquapin oak.
- Laboratory tests indicate that eastern red and pin oaks, some blueberry varieties, and perhaps certain rhododendrons, viburnums, and other landscape plants are highly susceptible to sudden oak death.
- Pin oaks produce drooping wind-pollinated male flowers called catkins; the female flowers come in groups of one to three just as the leaves begin to unfold.
- Turkey Mountain and adjacent slopes (4.04 km2 of apparently unlogged post oak and chinquapin oak savanna) Ozark Mountain forests
- Today, my client was confused about Pin Oak and Willow Oak; Quercus palustris, and Quercus phellos, quite different trees. Zantedeschia elliottiana - The Panda's Thumb
- The riparian areas surrounding the springs are oases of velvet ash, chinkapin oak, Texas madrone, bigtooth maple, maidenhair fern, and sawgrass. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
- In English, among the oaks, we distinguish the pin oak, among bears, grizzly bears.
- While the common oak tree tends to have a broad frame, the pin oak has a more slender frame with a graceful, filigreed framework of branchlets.
- On poorly drained, clayey soils with hardpans that were derived from argillite, native vegetation is a mosaic of red maple, swamp hardwoods, and mixed oaks, including pin oak. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
