Oak

[əʊk] or [ok]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves; 'great oaks grow from little acorns'.

(noun.) the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

(n.) The strong wood or timber of the oak.

編輯:露西尔

解釋/意思:

n. a tree of about 300 species the most famous the British oak valued for its timber in shipbuilding &c.—ns. Oak′-app′le a spongy substance on the leaves of the oak caused by insects—also Oak′leaf-gall; Oak′-bark the bark of some species of oak used in tanning.—adjs. Oak′-cleav′ing (Shak.) cleaving oaks; Oak′en consisting or made of oak.—ns. Oak′-gall a gall produced on the oak; Oak′-leath′er a fungus mycelium in the fissures of old oaks; Oak′ling a young oak; Oak′-pā′per paper for wall-hangings veined like oak.—adj. Oak′y like oak firm.—Oak-apple Day the 29th of May the anniversary of the Restoration in 1660 when country boys used to wear oak-apples in commemoration of Charles II. skulking in the branches of an oak (the Royal Oak) from Cromwell's troopers after Worcester.—Sport one's oak in English university slang to signify that one does not wish visitors by closing the outer door of one's rooms; The Oaks one of the three great English races—for mares—the others being the Derby and St Leger.

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