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noun. Any of numerous deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Quercus, bearing acorns as fruit.

noun. The hard durable wood of any of these trees or shrubs.

noun. Something made of this wood.

noun. Any of various trees or shrubs having wood or a leaf shape similar to that of certain oaks.

noun. Any of various brown shades resembling the wood of an oak in color.

noun. Same as cañon live-oak.

noun. The wall germander, Teucrium Chamædrys.

noun. Gambel's oak, Q. Gambelii.

noun. The Texan oak, Q, Texana.

noun. Same as tarata.

noun. The mountain white oak, Q. Douglasii.

noun. Same as Gambel's oak.

noun. The California white oak, Quercus lobata.

noun. Same as Texan oak.

noun. The water-oak, Q. nigra.

noun. The laurel-oak, Quercus laurifolia.

noun. See Durand's oak.

noun. In Australia, a small malvaceous tree, Lagunaria Patersoni. See whitewood.

noun. A tree or shrub of the genus Quercus, a large and widely dispersed group, chiefly of forest-trees.

noun. One of various other trees or plants in some respects resembling the oak.

noun. The wood of an oak-tree.

noun. One of certain moths: as, the scalloped oak. [British collectors' name.]

noun. The club at cards.

noun. The red oak.

noun. Quercus Emoryi of Texas.

noun. Same as shingle-oak.

noun. The Turkey oak.

noun. Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.

noun. The strong wood or timber of the oak.

noun. oak wood colored green by the growth of the mycelium of certain fungi.

noun. a large, smooth, round gall produced on the leaves of the American red oak by a gallfly (Cynips confluens). It is green and pulpy when young.

noun. a British geometrid moth (Biston prodromaria) whose larva feeds on the oak.

noun. a gall found on the oak. See 2d Gall.

noun. the mycelium of a fungus which forms leatherlike patches in the fissures of oak wood.

noun. See Pruner, the insect.

noun. a kind of gall produced on the oak by the insect Diplolepis lenticularis.

noun. a wartlike gall on the twigs of an oak.

noun. one of the three great annual English horse races (the Derby and St. Leger being the others). It was instituted in 1779 by the Earl of Derby, and so called from his estate.

noun. to be “not at home to visitors,” signified by closing the outer (oaken) door of one's rooms.

noun. A tree of the genus Quercus.

noun. The wood of the oak.

noun. A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.

adjective. of a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.

adjective. made of oak wood or timber

adjective. consisting of oak trees

noun. the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring

noun. a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves

""An _oaken_ cask," signifies an _oak_ cask, or a cask _of oak_; i.e. a cask _made_ of oak; but a _beer_ cask, and a cask _of beer_, are two different things."

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