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durmast oak

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Superficially 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"), an interpretation also suggested by some earlier works going back to at least 1836, although a connection to Welsh derw (“oaks”) has also been suggested.

noun durmast oaks

  1. countable, uncountable A tree, Quercus petraea, the sessile oak.
  2. countable, uncountable Wood of the tree.

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@misc{durmast_oak_2026,
  title = {durmast oak},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/durmast%20oak},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}