oak tree
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- noun
- /oʊk tri/
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roble
- We got married under the great big oak tree.
- territories under oak trees
But if you plant that acorn in a shallow bucket, it will never reach its potential as an oak tree, even though the potential is within it.
- But if you plant that acorn in a shallow bucket, it will never reach its potential as an oak tree, even though the potential is within it.
- Well, every single one of those acorns is potentially A magnificent oak tree, but almost none of them become oak trees, right?
- We made a plan and we're going to hide behind this giant oak tree and hope we can cut her off before she runs through.
- So whether that's an apple, whether that's a Cherry Tree, this oak tree here, or even a Maple tree, they drop their leaves in fall, regrow them in spring.
- And I encounter this toppled over oak tree and it occurs to me that this tree is now dying and decomposing back into the earth.
- It's harvested from live cork oak trees with no done to the tree.
- It's harvested from live cork oak trees with no harm from done to the tree.
- And now maybe to that squirrel outside, maybe that oak tree, Go take a look, sip a cup of coffee outside.
- If you what it takes to really make an oak tree is years and years of nurturing and slow growth.
- We'll get back to this guy at lunch before we get back to this guy's fucking, you know, oak trees.
Examples
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Forrest stands under the old oak tree where Jenny has been buried.
Fiction book (1994) -
We spotted a family of squirrels gathering acorns near the tall oak tree.
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A huge oak tree is standing outside.
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We made a plan and we're going to hide behind this giant oak tree and hope we can cut her off before she runs through.
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Look at the magnificent oak tree over there, near the wall!"
Fiction book (1993) -
As there is no Church, l have been conducting the services underneath a live oak tree.
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It happened under the old oak tree!
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He'd just sit across the street from his kid's house in a giant oak tree.
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The squirrel is halfway up an oak tree, frozen against a limb, beyond a cluster of leaves.
Fiction book (1992) -
So there was a huge oak tree that was an age and there was another one that was bent into the ground and they were trail markers so that people wouldn't lose their way.
Synonyms
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A large tree that has leaves with deep cuts and makes acorns
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Morphology
The meaning 'a large tree of the genus Quercus' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'oak' (a species name) with 'tree' (a tall perennial plant), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes the tree species oak. This simple noun–noun compound follows a common cross-linguistic pattern for naming types or species, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The noun oak tree is the name for a large, very strong tree with a thick trunk and many acorns. Because people used its heavy wood for building and it can live a very long time, the oak tree became a symbol of 'strength' and 'long life'.