Quercitron

noun

1. The bright orange inner bark of the eastern black oak, from which a yellow dye is obtained.
2. The dye obtained from this bark.
3. 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.
4. The bark of this tree.
5. 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.