OAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oak mean? 

• OAK (noun)
  The noun OAK has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: OAK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("oak" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oak"):

fumed oak (oak given a weathered appearance by exposure to fumes of ammonia; used for cabinetwork)

holm oak (hard wood of the holm oak tree)

Holonyms ("oak" is a substance of...):

oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

oak; oak tree

Context example:

great oaks grow from little acorns

Hypernyms ("oak" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (parts of "oak"):

acorn (fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base)

Meronyms (substance of "oak"):

oak (the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oak"):

live oak (any of several American evergreen oaks)

black oak; quercitron; quercitron oak; Quercus velutina; yellow oak (medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped)

Chinese cork oak; Quercus variabilis (medium to large deciduous tree of China, Japan, and Korea having thick corky bark)

Quercus texana; Spanish oak (small deciduous tree having the trunk branched almost from the base with spreading branches; Texas and southern Oklahoma)

cork oak; Quercus suber (medium-sized evergreen oak of southern Europe and northern Africa having thick corky bark that is periodically stripped to yield commercial cork)

box white oak; brash oak; iron oak; post oak; Quercus stellata (small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having dark green lyrate pinnatifid leaves and tough moisture-resistant wood used especially for fence posts)

Quercus phellos; willow oak (medium to large deciduous oak of the eastern United States having long lanceolate leaves and soft strong wood)

pin oak; Quercus palustris; swamp oak (fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil)

Nuttall's oak; Nuttall oak; Quercus nuttalli (similar to the pin oak; grows in damp sites in Mississippi River basin)

possum oak; Quercus nigra; water oak (relatively tall deciduous water oak of southeastern United States often cultivated as a shade tree; thrives in wet soil)

chestnut oak (an oak having leaves resembling those of chestnut trees)

Japanese oak; Quercus grosseserrata; Quercus mongolica (oak with moderately light fine-grained wood; Japan)

scrub oak (any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets)

overcup oak; Quercus lyrata (medium-large deciduous timber tree of central and southern United States; acorns deeply immersed in the cup and mature in first year)

laurel oak; pin oak; Quercus laurifolia (large nearly semi-evergreen oak of southeastern United States; thrives in damp soil)

American turkey oak; Quercus laevis; turkey oak (small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes)

California black oak; Quercus kelloggii (large deciduous tree of the Pacific coast having deeply parted bristle-tipped leaves)

bluejack oak; Quercus incana; turkey oak (small semi-evergreen shrubby tree of southeastern United States having hairy young branchlets and leaves narrowing to a slender bristly point)

laurel oak; Quercus imbricaria; shingle oak (small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having leaves that shine like laurel; wood is used in western states for shingles)

evergreen oak; holly-leaved oak; holm oak; holm tree; Quercus ilex (evergreen oak of southern Europe having leaves somewhat resembling those of holly; yields a hard wood)

red oak (any of numerous American oaks having 4 stamens in each floret, acorns requiring two years to mature and leaf veins usually extending beyond the leaf margin to form points or bristles)

jack oak; northern pin oak; Quercus ellipsoidalis (small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes)

Quercus coccinea; scarlet oak (medium-large deciduous tree with a thick trunk found in the eastern United States and southern Canada and having close-grained wood and deeply seven-lobed leaves turning scarlet in autumn)

European turkey oak; Quercus cerris; turkey oak (large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes)

white oak (any of numerous Old World and American oaks having 6 to 8 stamens in each floret, acorns that mature in one year and leaf veins that never extend beyond the margin of the leaf)

Holonyms ("oak" is a member of...):

genus Quercus; Quercus (oaks)

 Context examples 

There is a great oak near here, and I think that Bertrand will bring the horses there, for it is an old hunting-tryst of ours.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He handed it to me and closed the door of his oak cabinet.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why had the mere name of this unresisting individual—whom his word now sufficed to control like a child—fallen on him, a few hours since, as a thunderbolt might fall on an oak?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Returning through the large and lofty hall, they ascended a broad staircase of shining oak, which, after many flights and many landing-places, brought them upon a long, wide gallery.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Amid the gloom of the oak trees something was coming towards us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The closed gates are of heavy old oak and iron, all eaten with rust.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As to the oak there could be no question at all.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This put me in a great fear, and I crawled under cover of the nearest live-oak and squatted there, hearkening, as silent as a mouse.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then I walked across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded across it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the farther side of it, under the shadow of a mighty oak, there stood a singular group of three people.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)