oak
Meanings
- A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
- The wood of the oak.
- A rich brown color, like that of oak wood.
- Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
- Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
- The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
- Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
- Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
- Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
- Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
- The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase sport one's oak.)
- The flavor of oak.
- Having a rich brown color, like that of oak wood.
- Made of oak wood or timber.
- To expose to oak in order for the oak to impart its flavors.
- Initialism of of a kind.
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ake, hok, oek, ok, oke, from Old English aac, āc, ǣċ, from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks (“oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: Scots aik, ake, yik (“oak”), North Frisian iake, iik (“oak”), Saterland Frisian Eeke (“oak”), West Frisian iik (“oak”), Cimbrian aicha, oach (“oak”), Dutch eik (“oak”), German Eiche (“oak”), Luxembourgish Eech (“oak”), Vilamovian aach, aeh́, ǡh́ (“oak”), Danish eg (“oak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk eik (“oak”), Norwegian Bokmål eik, ek (“oak”), Swedish ek (“oak”). From Proto-Indo-European: Latin aesculus (“Italian oak”), Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “Turkey oak”), Albanian enjë (“English yew; stinking juniper”), Latvian ozols (“oak”), Lithuanian ąžuolas (“oak”).