quercitron | (n) a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree |
black oak | (n) medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped, Syn. Quercus velutina, quercitron, yellow oak, quercitron oak |
Quercitron | n. [ F. quercitron, the name of the name of tree; L. quercus an oak + citrus the citron tree. ] |