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silk oak

silk oak is the alternative form of silky oak.

Meaning of silky oak

Noun

silky oak (countable and uncountable, plural silky oaks)

  1. (countable) Any of various trees and large shrubs in the family Proteaceae, especially Grevillea robusta or Cardwellia sublimis.
    • If you drive north from Sydney to Brisbane you come to a natural border, some way south of the political one, where the first bunyas and hoop-pines and silky oaks begin to appear.1998, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 164
  2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees.

Forms of silk oak

pluralsilk oaks

Questions about silk oak

What is silk oak the alternative form of?
Silk oak is the alternative form of silky oak.

Words near silk oak in the dictionary

  1. silk
  2. silk elevator
  3. silk elevators
  4. silk hat
  5. silk moss
  6. silk oak
  7. silk oaks
  8. silk paper
  9. silk papers
  10. silk press
  11. Silk Road

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