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durmast oak

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dur-mas-t oak
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tree, Quercus petraea, the sessile oak.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Wood of the tree.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Superficially a compound of durmast + oak, but the origin of durmast is unclear and possibly a result of scribal error. The first edition Oxford English Dictionary suggests that Thomas Martyn's dictionary for gardeners and botanists (1798) originated the word through misreading dun mast ("light-brown acorn"), an interpretation also suggested by some earlier works going back to at least 1836, although a connection to Welsh derw (“oaks”) has also been suggested.

Usage

Inflected Forms

durmast oaks (plural)

Questions

What does durmast oak mean?
A tree, Quercus petraea, the sessile oak.
Where does durmast oak come from?
Superficially a compound of durmast + oak, but the origin of durmast is unclear and possibly a result of scribal error. The first edition Oxford English Dictionary suggests that Thomas Martyn's dictionary for gardeners and botanists (1798) originated the word through misreading dun mast ("light-brown acorn"), an interpretation also suggested by some earlier works going back to at least 1836, although a connection to Welsh derw (“oaks”) has also been suggested.

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