See also: oak plain opening plain(s) (def. 2)
- 1852  (1881)  The black squirrel, for a succession of years, was very rarely to be met with on the plains, while there were plenty of the red and grey in the "oak openings."
- 1939  The general results of the foregoing would seem at first sight to point to the " groves," "open woods," "oak openings," parklands, or whatever name one may give them, being more pronounced on the western borders of this huge territory than on the Atlantic slope.