Meanings
plural silky oaks
- countableAny of various trees and large shrubs in the family Proteaceae, especially Grevillea robusta or Cardwellia sublimis.
If you drive north from Sydney to Brisbane you come to a natural border, some way south of the political one, where the first bunyas and hoop-pines and silky oaks begin to appear.
1998, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 164 - uncountableThe wood of these trees.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounmedium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Japanese 羽衣の木
- 羽衣の木 (hagoromo no ki)Grevillea robusta
Cite this entry
silky oak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/silky%20oak
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