| NOUN | plant | silk oak | any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering |
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| Meaning | Any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering. | |
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| Member of | genus Grevillea | large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers |
| Narrower | beefwood, Grevillea striata | Tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood |
| red-flowered silky oak, Grevillea banksii | tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath | |
| silky oak, Grevillea robusta | Medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath | |
| silver oak, Grevillela parallela | small slender tree with usually entire grey-green pendulous leaves and white or cream-colored flowers | |
| Broader | grevillea | Any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea |
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