quercitron

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The bright orange inner bark of the eastern black oak, from which a yellow dye is obtained.

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The dye obtained from this bark.

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The black or dyers’ oak, Quercus tinctoria, a tree from 70 to 100 feet high, common through the eastern half of the United States and in southern Canada.

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The bark of this tree.

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The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer’s oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.

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Quercitrin, used as a pigment. See Quercitrin.

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A yellow dye obtained from the bark of the black oak.

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The black oak tree, Quercus velutina, indigenous to North America.

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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

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a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree