post oak
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of post oak
An Americanism dating back to 1755–65
Example Sentences
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For all the attention Daisy paid to my protests, I may as well have been talking to a post oak stump.
From Literature
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There are few areas of old-growth post oak trees left in Texas.
From Washington Post
She was the one who taught Bludso how to tend fires, season meat and prepare Texas-style barbecue, low and slow with smoldering splits of post oak.
From Washington Post
He smokes the ribs over post oak and pecan woods; the final texture emerges a bit ropier than the lush, almost custardy Central Texas barbecue exemplars.
From Los Angeles Times
His burial site, behind his presidential museum in College Station, Texas, is near a pond and across a footbridge over a creek where three large post oaks form a semicircle.
From Washington Times
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