oak 音標拼音: ['ok]
n . 橡樹,櫟樹,櫟木,櫟木家具,木船
橡樹,櫟樹,櫟木,櫟木家具,木船
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 " [
synonym : {
oak },
{
oak tree }]
Oak \
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n . [
OE .
oke ,
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akin to D .
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G .
eiche ,
OHG .
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Icel .
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Sw .
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Dan .
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[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
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2 .
The strong wood or timber of the oak .
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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 }.
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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 }.
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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 }).
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{
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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136 Moby Thesaurus words for "
oak ":
Gibraltar ,
acacia ,
adamant ,
ailanthus ,
alder ,
alligator pear ,
allspice ,
almond ,
apple ,
apricot ,
ash ,
aspen ,
avocado ,
balsa ,
balsam ,
banyan ,
bass ,
basswood ,
bay ,
bayberry ,
beech ,
beechwood ,
betel palm ,
birch ,
bone ,
brick ,
buckeye ,
burl ,
butternut ,
buttonwood ,
cacao ,
candleberry ,
cashew ,
cassia ,
catalpa ,
cement ,
cherry ,
chestnut ,
chinquapin ,
cinnamon ,
citron ,
clove ,
coconut ,
concrete ,
cork ,
cork oak ,
cypress ,
diamond ,
dogwood ,
ebony ,
elder ,
elm ,
eucalyptus ,
fig ,
fir ,
flint ,
frankincense ,
granite ,
grapefruit ,
guava ,
gum ,
gumwood ,
hawthorn ,
hazel ,
heart of oak ,
hemlock ,
henna ,
hickory ,
holly ,
hop tree ,
horse ,
horse chestnut ,
iron ,
ironwood ,
juniper ,
kumquat ,
laburnum ,
lancewood ,
larch ,
laurel ,
lemon ,
lime ,
linden ,
lion ,
litchi ,
litchi nut ,
locust ,
logwood ,
magnolia ,
mahogany ,
mango ,
mangrove ,
maple ,
marble ,
medlar ,
mountain ash ,
mulberry ,
nails ,
nutmeg ,
olive ,
orange ,
ox ,
palm ,
papaw ,
papaya ,
peach ,
pear ,
pecan ,
persimmon ,
pine ,
pistachio ,
plane ,
plum ,
pomegranate ,
poplar ,
quince ,
raffia palm ,
rain tree ,
redwood ,
rock ,
sandalwood ,
sassafras ,
senna ,
sequoia ,
spruce ,
steel ,
stone ,
sumac ,
sycamore ,
tangerine ,
teak ,
tulip tree ,
walnut ,
willow ,
witch hazel ,
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Java ,
predecessor ,
Sun )
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 }.)
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