(from the article `scrub oak`) Specifically, scrub oak refers to Q. ilicifolia, also known as bear oak, native to the eastern United States. It is an intricately branched ...any of several small, shrubby trees of the genus Quercus, in the beech family (Fagaceae), native to dry soils in North America.
Informal term applied to several species of thicket-forming shrubby oaks.
[n] - any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets
noun any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets