Meaning of silky oak | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various trees and large shrubs in the family Proteaceae, especially Grevillea robusta or Cardwellia sublimis.
   countable
2. The wood of these trees.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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