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Synonyms oak tree
Type of tree
Has types american turkey oak, black oak, bluejack oak, box white oak, brash oak, california black oak, chestnut oak, chinese cork oak, cork oak, european turkey oak, evergreen oak, iron oak, spanish oak, swamp oak, turkey oak, water oak, white oak, willow oak, yellow oak, holly-leaved oak, holm oak, holm tree, jack oak, japanese oak, laurel oak, live oak, northern pin oak, nuttall's oak, nuttall oak, overcup oak, pin oak, possum oak, post oak, quercitron, quercitron oak, quercus cerris, quercus coccinea, quercus ellipsoidalis, quercus grosseserrata, quercus ilex, quercus imbricaria, quercus incana, quercus kelloggii, quercus laevis, quercus laurifolia, quercus lyrata, quercus mongolica, quercus nigra, quercus nuttalli, quercus palustris, quercus phellos, quercus stellata, quercus suber, quercus texana, quercus variabilis, quercus velutina, red oak, scarlet oak, scrub oak, shingle oak


great oaks grow from little acorns.
Type Words
Type of wood
Has types fumed oak, holm oak

Examples of oak

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Difficulty is moderate as it meanders through a 484-acre oak and hickory forest.
From the desmoinesregister.com
It shows good balance between fruit and acidity, accented but not marred by oak.
From the washingtonpost.com
The cellar was cold and barely lit, and oak barrels were stacked up the ceiling.
From the businessweek.com
England also boasts quite a few specialist dealers in oak and country furniture.
From the businessweek.com
A lighter style of pinot, with nice soft fruit aromas and a hint of savoury oak.
From the nzherald.co.nz
What are those green caterpillar thingies that are jumping on me from oak trees?
From the news-journalonline.com
The original railings are a solid oak and have been repainted in neutral colors.
From the post-gazette.com
Oak, elm and some types of walnut lend themselves well to wood-turning, he said.
From the dailyherald.com
They replaced the fireplace's butchered mantel with an oak-and-tile masterpiece.
From the dailyherald.com
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  • The hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
  • A deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves; "great oaks grow from little acorns"
  • An Oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree"), of which about 600 species exist on earth. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus. ...
  • Oakland International Airport , also known as Metropolitan Oakland International Airport, is a public airport located south of the central business district of Oakland, a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is owned by the Port of Oakland.
  • Oak were an English folk band in the early 1970s which had a major influence on the folk revival in the UK, despite being together for only two years.
  • Oak was a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's North Side Main Line, which is now part of the Brown Line. The station was located at 319 W. Oak Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago. ...
  • Warren Okay "Oak" Felder is an Atlanta-based Turkish-American record producer. He is known as Oak and is part of a production team known as The Knightwritaz, with singers Mario, Sterling Simms, and Marsha Ambrosius of Floetry.
  • Oak was a programming language created by James Gosling in 1991, initially for Sun Microsystems set-top box project. The language later evolved to become Java.
  • An oak tree; The wood of the oak; A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood; Made from the wood of the oak tree; of a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood