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Noun
[edit]silky oak (countable and uncountable, plural silky oaks)
- (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.
- (uncountable) The wood of these trees.
Derived terms
[edit]- 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)
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silky oak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Grevillea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Grevillea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
