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SILVER OAK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silver oak mean?
• SILVER OAK (noun)
The noun SILVER OAK has 1 sense:
1. small slender tree with usually entire grey-green pendulous leaves and white or cream-colored flowers; northern Australia
Familiarity information: SILVER OAK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small slender tree with usually entire grey-green pendulous leaves and white or cream-colored flowers; northern Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Grevillela parallela; silver oak
Hypernyms ("silver oak" is a kind of...):
silk oak (any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering)
Holonyms ("silver oak" is a member of...):
genus Grevillea (large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers)
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