durmast oak
English
Etymology
Presumably 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").
Noun
durmast oak (plural durmast oaks)
- A tree, Quercus petraea, the sessile oak.
- Wood of the tree.
References
- durmast, n. Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- Thomas Martyn, Philip Miller (1798) A companion to the gardener's and botanists' dictionary ... By the late Philip Miller, F. and C. Rivington, →OCLC