a. [ad. L. quercin-us, f. quercus oak: see -INE2.] Of or pertaining to the oak; made of oak, oaken.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Quercine, oken, make of Okes.
1658. Phillips, Quercine, belonging to an oak.
1854. B. Taylor, Lands Saracen, xxxvii. (1855), 440. The mast … was as sweet and palatable as chestnuts, with very little of the bitter quercine flavour.
