Definitions for live-oak

live-oak live oak

Spelling: [lahyv]
IPA: /laɪv/

Live-Oak is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in live-oak (-aeiklov).

Definitions for live-oak

noun

  1. an evergreen oak, Quercus virginiana, of the southern U.S., having a short, broad trunk and shiny, oblong leaves: the state tree of Georgia.
  2. any of various related trees.
  3. the hard, durable wood of any of these trees.

Origin of live-oak

An Americanism dating back to 1600-10

Examples for live-oak

The live oak of the south is most excellent fuel; so is holly.

They were all of live oak, which successfully resists the wear of centuries.

It was a live oak of most stupendous dimensions, the very patriarch of the prairie, grown grey in the lapse of ages.

They slept under a live oak with the soundness of healthy youth.

The live oak, so valuable in ship building, is found south of the 31°, and along the Louisiana coast.

Mr. Wilcox: It was a cross between Juglans Californica and the live oak.

Sweet gum, live oak, holly and cedar flourished in low grounds.

She was built of Carolina live oak like the government vessels.

There is in California a tree which is considered to be a cross between the native walnut and the live oak.

They have on the carpet a contract for live oak from the southern States.

Word Value for live-oak
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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