silk oak

/ˌsɪlki oʊk/

Definitions of silk oak

1. noun

   any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering
   types:

   Grevillea banksii, red-flowered silky oak

   tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath; eastern Australia

   Grevillela parallela, silver oak

   small slender tree with usually entire grey-green pendulous leaves and white or cream-colored flowers; northern Australia

   Grevillea robusta, silky oak

   medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia

   Grevillea striata, beefwood

   tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood

   type of:

   grevillea

   any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea