silky oak

English

Noun

silky oak (countable and uncountable, plural silky oaks)

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

Coordinate terms

• , red silky oak
• , cream silky oak
• , Muellers silky oak
• , blush silky oak
• , northern silky oak
• , red silky oak
• , rose silky oak, brown silky oak
• , rose silky oak, brown silky oak
• , wingleaf silky oak
• , red silky oak, dwarf silky oak, white silky oak
• , white silky oak, Hill's silky oak
• , Darwin silky oak, ferny-leaved silky oak
• , creek silky oak
• , ivory silky oak
• , briar silky oak
• , red silky oak
• , mountain silky oak
• , white silky oak
• , red silky oak