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African oak

African oak noun: any member of the species Oldfieldia africana of large trees of West Africa, of different order from that of oak, yielding timber marketed as oak-like.

Noun

African oak (plural African oaks)

  1. Any member of the species Oldfieldia africana of large trees of West Africa, of different order from that of oak, yielding timber marketed as oak-like.

Forms of African oak

pluralAfrican oaks

Questions about African oak

What does African oak mean?
African oak means any member of the species Oldfieldia africana of large trees of West Africa, of different order from that of oak, yielding timber marketed as oak-like.
What part of speech is African oak?
African oak is a noun.
What is the plural of African oak?
The plural of African oak is African oaks.

Words near African oak in the dictionary

  1. African myrrh
  2. African net sponge
  3. African net sponges
  4. African nutmeg
  5. African nutmegs
  6. African oak
  7. African openbill
  8. African openbills
  9. African painted frog
  10. African painted frogs
  11. African palm civet

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