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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. Related Definitions: About, Acorn, Alternate, An, And, Any, Are, Barely, Called, Centuries, Conspicuous, Cup, Cupule, Few, Fifty, Forest, Form, Forming, Fruit, Genus, Grain, Grand, Hard, Have, Hundred, In, Inclosed, Involucre, Is, Leaves, Less, Live, Lobed, Many, Medullary, More, Nearly, North, Northern, Now, Nut, Oak, Occur, Of, Often, Or, Other, Provided, Quercus, Reaching, Recognized, Rest, Scaly, Shrub, Silver, Smooth, South, Species, Staminate, Strong, The, There, Three, Timber, Tough, Tree, United, Variously, Very, Which, With, Wood

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

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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