silk oak

silk oak

n.

An Australian evergreen tree (Grevillea robusta) having divided fernlike leaves and showy one-sided clusters of orange flowers.

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Noun

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silk oak - any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering genus Grevillea - large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers grevillea - any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea Grevillea banksii, red-flowered silky oak - tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath; eastern Australia Grevillela parallela, silver oak - small slender tree with usually entire grey-green pendulous leaves and white or cream-colored flowers; northern Australia Grevillea robusta, silky oak - medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia Grevillea striata, beefwood - tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood