Definition of Oak

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Definition of Oak

Oak

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.

The strong wood or timber of the oak.

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Oak Quotations

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
David Icke

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
George Herbert

Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.
Leonard Boswell

Oak Translations

oak in Afrikaans is eik
oak in Danish is eg
oak in Dutch is eiken, eikehouten
oak in German is Eiche
oak in Italian is quercia
oak in Norwegian is eik
oak in Portuguese is carvalho
oak in Spanish is roble
oak in Swedish is ek

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