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)

  1. A tree, Quercus petraea, the sessile oak.
  2. 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 643825282
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