Oak (disambiguation)

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The word oak can refer to:

• 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.

• 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

• Oak (wine), the use of oak in winemaking

• Professor Oak, the first featured professor of the anime, manga, and RPG series Pokémon and the leading professor of the Kanto region.
• Purushottam Nagesh (P.N.) Oak, controversial Indian historian

• OAK is a popular brand of flavoured milk in Australia, produced by Dairy Farmers.

• OAK is also the three-letter IATA airport code for Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California USA.

• In computer science Oak is a programming language by Sun Microsystems, it later evolved into the Java programming language.

• Dark Oak, a character from the third season of Sonic X.

• United Aircraft Building Corporation (Russian: OAK), company formed by the merger of several Russian aerospace firms.

• Quercus (organization) - Environment organization in Portugal.
• Oakleigh railway station, Melbourne, Australia; station code OAK.

[edit] See also

• Oaks