A hard coarse-grained oak, Quercus aquatica or nigra, of the southern U.S. Also, the pin-oak, Q. palustris. Also applied to certain Australian trees of the genera Casuarina and Callistemon.
1717. Petiveriana, III. 207. Water Oak. Is an Evergreen, growing in Swamps, Fresh-water Ponds, and by River Sides.
1796. H. Hunter, trans. St.-Pierre’s Stud. Nat. (1799), II. 165. The water-oak, and the willow-leafed oak, rise to no great height.
1819. D. B. Warden, Acc. United States, I. 174. Water oak, Quercus aquatica.
1887. G. W. Cable, Grande Pointe, ii., in Century Mag., March, 662/1. Sweet-gums, water-oaks, magnolias.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Miner’s Right, xvii. 166. Strange shadows gliding … amid the dark-leaved water-oaks.
