"oak" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Now we wake the sleeping daws who have never seen a human form; now we tread on rotten oak apples, red with age and slippery.
- This term may even have extended to plant galls, as they were thought to be of plant origin (see oak apple).
- Considerable confusion exists in the general 'literature' between the oak apple and the oak marble gall.
- The oak marble is frequently called the oak apple due to the superficial resemblance and the preponderance of the oak marble gall in the wild.
- Another species of gall wasp is noted for creating the odd-looking oak apple.
- The ink was of two kinds: either a brownish colour, made from oak apples and sulphate of iron; or a jet-black, made from holly.
- The gallotannic acid was usually extracted from oak galls (also known as "oak apples"), or galls of other trees; hence the name.
- These turn reddish in the fall and are commonly known as oak apples.
- On some oak trees, larger galls can be seen, and these are called oak apples.
- Bock's description of oak apples is noted in the entomologists data base.
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