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 oak /ˈok/
 橡樹,櫟樹,櫟木,櫟木家具,木船

 Oak n.
 1. Bot. 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.
 2. The strong wood or timber of the oak.
 Note: ☞ Among the true oaks in America are: Barren oak, or Black-jack, Quercus nigra.
 Basket oak, Quercus Michauxii.
 Black oak, Quercus tinctoria; -- called also yellow oak or quercitron oak.
 Bur oak (see under Bur.), Quercus macrocarpa; -- called also over-cup or mossy-cup oak.
 Chestnut oak, Quercus Prinus and Quercus densiflora.
 Chinquapin oak (see under Chinquapin), Quercus prinoides.
 Coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, of California; -- also called enceno.
 Live oak (see under Live), Quercus virens, the best of all for shipbuilding; also, Quercus Chrysolepis, of California.
 Pin oak. Same as Swamp oak.
 Post oak, Quercus obtusifolia.
 Red oak, Quercus rubra.
 Scarlet oak, Quercus coccinea.
 Scrub oak, Quercus ilicifolia, Quercus undulata, etc.
 Shingle oak, Quercus imbricaria.
 Spanish oak, Quercus falcata.
 Swamp Spanish oak, or Pin oak, Quercus palustris.
 Swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor.
 Water oak, Quercus aquatica.
 Water white oak, Quercus lyrata.
 Willow oak, Quercus Phellos.
     Among the true oaks in Europe are: Bitter oak, or Turkey oak, Quercus Cerris (see Cerris).
 Cork oak, Quercus Suber.
 English white oak, Quercus Robur.
 Evergreen oak, Holly oak, or Holm oak, Quercus Ilex.
 Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera.
 Nutgall oak, Quercus infectoria.
 Note: ☞ Among plants called oak, but not of the genus Quercus, are: African oak, a valuable timber tree (Oldfieldia Africana).
 Australian oak or She oak, any tree of the genus Casuarina (see Casuarina).
 Indian oak, the teak tree (see Teak).
 Jerusalem oak. See under Jerusalem.
 New Zealand oak, a sapindaceous tree (Alectryon excelsum).
 Poison oak, a shrub once not distinguished from poison ivy, but now restricted to Rhus toxicodendron or Rhus diversiloba.
 Silky oak or  Silk-bark oak, an Australian tree (Grevillea robusta).
 Green oak, oak wood colored green by the growth of the mycelium of certain fungi.
 Oak apple, 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.
 Oak beauty Zool., a British geometrid moth (Biston prodromaria) whose larva feeds on the oak.
 Oak gall, a gall found on the oak. See 2d Gall.
 Oak leather Bot., the mycelium of a fungus which forms leatherlike patches in the fissures of oak wood.
 Oak pruner. Zool. See Pruner, the insect.
 Oak spangle, a kind of gall produced on the oak by the insect Diplolepis lenticularis.
 Oak wart, a wartlike gall on the twigs of an oak.
 The Oaks, 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.
 To sport one's oak, to be “not at home to visitors,” signified by closing the outer (oaken) door of one's rooms. [Cant, Eng. Univ.]
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 oak
      n 1: the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for
           furniture and flooring
      2: a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed
         leaves; "great oaks grow from little acorns" [syn: oak
         tree]

 Oak
    There are six Hebrew words rendered "oak."
      (1.) 'El occurs only in the word El-paran (Gen. 14:6). The
    LXX. renders by "terebinth." In the plural form this word occurs
    in Isa. 1:29; 57:5 (A.V. marg. and R.V., "among the oaks"); 61:3
    ("trees"). The word properly means strongly, mighty, and hence a
    strong tree.
      (2.) 'Elah, Gen. 35:4, "under the oak which was by Shechem"
    (R.V. marg., "terebinth"). Isa. 6:13, A.V., "teil-tree;" R.V.,
    "terebinth." Isa. 1:30, R.V. marg., "terebinth." Absalom in his
    flight was caught in the branches of a "great oak" (2 Sam. 18:9;
    R.V. marg., "terebinth").
      (3.) 'Elon, Judg. 4:11; 9:6 (R.V., "oak;" A.V., following the
    Targum, "plain") properly the deciduous species of oak shedding
    its foliage in autumn.
      (4.) 'Elan, only in Dan. 4:11,14,20, rendered "tree" in
    Nebuchadnezzar's dream. Probably some species of the oak is
    intended.
      (5.) 'Allah, Josh. 24:26. The place here referred to is called
    Allon-moreh ("the oak of Moreh," as in R.V.) in Gen. 12:6 and
    35:4.
      (6.) 'Allon, always rendered "oak." Probably the evergreen oak
    (called also ilex and holm oak) is intended. The oak woods of
    Bashan are frequently alluded to (Isa. 2:13; Ezek. 27:6). Three
    species of oaks are found in Palestine, of which the "prickly
    evergreen oak" (Quercus coccifera) is the most abundant. "It
    covers the rocky hills of Palestine with a dense brushwood of
    trees from 8 to 12 feet high, branching from the base, thickly
    covered with small evergreen rigid leaves, and bearing acorns
    copiously." The so-called Abraham's oak at Hebron is of this
    species. Tristram says that this oak near Hebron "has for
    several centuries taken the place of the once renowned terebinth
    which marked the site of Mamre on the other side of the city.
    The terebinth existed at Mamre in the time of Vespasian, and
    under it the captive Jews were sold as slaves. It disappeared
    about A.D. 330, and no tree now marks the grove of Mamre. The
    present oak is the noblest tree in Southern Palestine, being 23
    feet in girth, and the diameter of the foliage, which is
    unsymmetrical, being about 90 feet." (See HEBRON;
    TEIL-TREE.)