silky oak
silky oak noun: any of various trees and large shrubs in the family Proteaceae, especially Grevillea robusta or Cardwellia sublimis.
Noun
silky oak (countable and uncountable, plural silky oaks)
- 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
- The wood of these trees.
Forms of silky oak
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Words formed from silky oak
- Australian silky oak
- blush silky oak
- briar silky oak
- brown silky oak
- cream silky oak
- creek silky oak
- Darwin silky oak
- dwarf silky oak
- ferny-leaved silky oak
- Hill's silky oak
- ivory silky oak Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia
- mountain silky oak
- Muellers silky oak
- northern silky oak
- red silky oak
- rose silky oak
- southern silky oak
- white silky oak
- wingleaf silky oak
Questions about silky oak
- What does silky oak mean?
- Silky oak means any of various trees and large shrubs in the family Proteaceae, especially Grevillea robusta or Cardwellia sublimis.
- What part of speech is silky oak?
- Silky oak is a noun.
- What is the plural of silky oak?
- The plural of silky oak is silky oaks.
Words near silky oak in the dictionary
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