silky oak

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Noun

silky oak (countable and uncountable, plural silky oaks)

1. (countable) Any of various trees and large shrubs in the family Proteaceae, especially Grevillea robusta or Cardwellia sublimis.
   • 1998, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 164:

     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.

2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees.

Derived terms

• Australian silky oak (Grevillea robusta)
• blush silky oak (Bleasdalea bleasdalei)
• briar silky oak (Musgravea heterophylla)
• brown silky oak (Darlingia darlingiana)
• cream silky oak (Athertonia diversifolia)
• creek silky oak (Helicia australasica)
• Darwin silky oak (Grevillea pteridifolia)
• dwarf silky oak (Grevillea banksii)
• ferny-leaved silky oak (Grevillea pteridifolia)
• Hill's silky oak (Grevillea hilliana)
• ivory silky oak Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia
• mountain silky oak (Orites excelsus)
• Muellers silky oak (Austromuellera trinervia)
• northern silky oak (Cardwellia spp.)
• red silky oak (Alloxylon flammeum, Carnarvonia araliifolia, Grevillea banksii, Oreocallis wickhamii, Stenocarpus salignus)
• rose silky oak (Darlingia ferruginea)
• southern silky oak (Grevillea robusta)
• white silky oak (Grevillea banksii, Grevillea hilliana, Stenocarpus sinuatus)
• wingleaf silky oak (Gevuina bleasdalei)

Translations

Grevillea robusta

Japanese: 羽衣の木 (hagoromo no ki) Kikuyu: mũbariti class 3

References

• silky oak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Grevillea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Grevillea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons