Definitions for oakoʊk

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

oakoʊk(n.)

any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Quercus, of the beech family, bearing the acorn as fruit.
Category: Plants
the hard, durable wood of such a tree.
Category: Furniture
the leaves of this tree, esp. as worn in a chaplet.

Origin of oak:

bef. 900; ME ook, OE āc; c. D eik, OHG eih (G Eiche), ON eik

oak′en(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

oak(noun)
the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
oak, oak tree(noun)
a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves
"great oaks grow from little acorns"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

oak(noun)ʊk
a tree that produces acorns, or the wood from this tree
two old oaks in the backyard; a table made of oak

Wiktionary

oak(Noun)
An oak tree.
oak(Noun)
The wood of the oak.
oak(Adjective)
(colour) of a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.

Origin: ook, from ac, from aiks (compare Scots aik, iik, eik, Eiche), from eiḱ or *eiǵ- (compare aesculus 'Durmast oak', ąžuolas 'oak', enjë 'juniper, yew', aigilōps 'Turkey oak').

Webster Dictionary

Oak(noun)
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
Oak(noun)
the strong wood or timber of the oak