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SILK OAK

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Meaning:

Any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering

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Nouns denoting plants

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

grevillea (any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea)

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

Grevillea banksii; red-flowered silky oak (tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath; eastern Australia)

Grevillela parallela; silver oak (small slender tree with usually entire grey-green pendulous leaves and white or cream-colored flowers; northern Australia)

Grevillea robusta; silky oak (medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia)

beefwood; Grevillea striata (tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood)

Holonyms ("silk 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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