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Oak vs Oakbark - What's the difference?

oak | oakbark |

As an adjective oak

is .

As a noun oakbark is

oak-bark, often specifically as a source of tannic acid; tan.

oak

English

Noun

  • (senseid)(lb) A tree of the genus Quercus .
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  • *:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
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  • *:Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves, and the darker green of oaks , and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.
  • (lb) The wood of the oak.
  • A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
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    • Derived terms

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    Hypernyms

    * (oak tree) tree

    Meronyms

    * (oak tree) acorn

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (colour) of a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
  • made of oak wood or timber
    • an oak' table, ' oak beam, etc
  • consisting of oak trees
    • an oak' wood, ' oak forest, etc

    Derived terms

    * acute oak decline * blackjack oak * chestnut oak * (chinquapin oak) * (coast live oak) * cork oak * durmast oak * fumed oak * holly oak * holm oak * Jerusalem oak * kermes oak * live oak * oak apple * oak fern * Oak Forest * oak gall * oak leaf cluster * Oak Park * oak pruner * oak wilt * oaken * Oakland * oakmoss * oak processionary moth * Oakville * pin oak * poison oak * red oak * scarlet oak * sessile oak * silky oak * scrub oak * (tan oak) * (valley oak) * water oak * white oak * willow oak

    See also

    * acorn * cork * ellagic acid * encina * nutgall * quercetin * quercitron * roble * shillelagh * tanbark * valonia * wainscot * (topicsee)

    External links

    * (wikipedia "oak")

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l), (l)

    oakbark

    English

    Alternative forms

    * oak bark, oak-bark

    Noun

    (-)
  • oak-bark, often specifically as a source of tannic acid; tan
  • * 1894 , Charles Romley Alder Wright, Animal and Vegetable Fixed Oils, Fats, Butters, and Waxes , Chapter XI, page 263:
    • Some kinds of fish oils are similarly improved by vigorous agitation with oakbark infusion or other liquors containing tannin, conveniently effected by blowing a rapid current of steam through the whole: [...]
  • * 1906 , Ferdinand Frühwald, Reference Handbook of the Diseases of Children for Students and Physicians , page 424:
    • From 1 to 2 kg. (2-4 pounds) of oakbark are boiled in a few liters (quarts) of water and allowed to digest for about an hour, after which the mixture is filtered and the filtrate added to the bath.
  • * 2005 , Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, The Edge Chronicles: Vox , page 53:
    • Rook [...] went, to the fireplace, where once huge logs would have been burned. Felix [...] unfastened one of the leather pouches attached to his belt and was setting out its contents on the hearth. There was a piece of flint, a short length of iron, oakbark dust and a ball of tinderwool.
  • * 2008 , Patricia J. Fanning, Through an uncommon lens: the life and photography of F. Holland Day , ISBN 978-1-55849-668-2, pages 18–19:
    • One resident recalled that Norwood had "a musky, vinegary, railroady smell. It was a mixture of the smells of raw sheepskins and oakbark acid ... and coal smoke, and it was a characteristic of the town."