Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tanoak

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tanoak
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Notholithocarpus densiflorus, an evergreen tree of the beech family, native to the western United States, whose seeds resemble the acorns of an oak.

Etymology

From tan + oak.

Inflected Forms

tanoaks (plural)

Questions

What does tanoak mean?: Notholithocarpus densiflorus, an evergreen tree of the beech family, native to the western United States, whose seeds resemble the acorns of an oak.
Where does tanoak come from?: From tan + oak.

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