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Meanings of English oak in English

Portuguese
carvalho-roble
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Medium to large deciduous European oak having smooth leaves with rounded lobes; yields hard strong light-colored wood.

        carvalho-roble
        Usage of English oak in English
        1
        One of the best selections of ancient English oak in the country.
        The Guardian
        2
        First up was an English oak marriage box with internal candle holder.
        The South African
        3
        The stem is of English oak, and the gunwale of American elm.
        A Yacht Voyage Round England
        4
        If he were a tree, it would surely be an English oak.
        The Guardian
        5
        The grand old English oak and elm are magnificent trees, in park or hedge-row here.
        A Walk from London to John O'Groat's / With Notes by the Way
        6
        Custom-built bookshelves of limed English oak lined two walls.
        The burglar who liked to quote kipling
        7
        Good English oak, that's kept them so fine.
        A duty to the dead
        8
        Norway fir nor English oak can resist forever the insidious assaults of the seemingly conquered ocean.
        Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II
        9
        The door was made of strong English oak.
        The spurned viscountess
        10
        These sticks were of no great length, some fifteen feet at the most, of sound English oak.
        The Monikins
        11
        There is one other English oak in the Park planted a few years ago, which is doing fine.
        The new yorker
        12
        I found myself in a lofty antique hall, the roof supported by massive joists of old English oak.
        The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
        13
        They gathered around a table made of English oak, cut and polished before the era of great cathedrals.
        The Descent
        14
        The camphor-laurel, which is about the size of an English oak, is the most important of these trees.
        Among the Trees at Elmridge
        15
        It somewhat resembles the English oak in its trunk, branches, and the great mass of foliage which it carries.
        The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderne...
        16
        The English oak, though strong and durable, was not considered generally suitable for finer work in the sixteenth century.
        The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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