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The word oak can refer to:
Plants
- An oak tree, genus Quercus in the plant family Fagaceae.
- The Australian tree known as she-oak or desert-oak, genus Allocasuarina, in the family Casuarinaceae.
- The Australian tree sometimes known as white oak, genus Lagunaria, in the family Malvaceae.
- Grevillea robusta, an Australian tree species sometimes known as silky oak, in the family Proteaceae.
- The North American plant known as poison oak belonging to the genus Toxicodendron in the family Anacardiaceae.
Places
- The town of Oak, Nebraska, USA.
- The village of Oak Tree, County Durham, in England.
- Oak Lawn, Illinois
- Oak Township, Minnesota, a township in Minnesota, United States
- Oakleigh railway station, Melbourne, Australia; station code OAK.
- Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California USA; IATA airport code OAK.
People
- Purushottam Nagesh (P.N.) Oak, controversial Indian historian
Fictional characters
- Professor Oak, the first featured professor of the anime, manga, and RPG series Pokémon and the leading professor of the Kanto region.
- Dark Oak, a character from the third season of Sonic X.
Other
- Oak (wine), the use of oak in winemaking
- OAK is a popular brand of flavoured milk in Australia, produced by Dairy Farmers.
- In computer science Oak is a programming language by Sun Microsystems, it later evolved into the Java programming language.
- United Aircraft Building Corporation (Russian: OAK), company formed by the merger of several Russian aerospace firms.
- Quercus (organization) - Environment organization in Portugal.
- An Oak Tree, a sculpture by Michael Craig-Martin comprising a glass of water on a shelf.
See also
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