This article is about oaks (Quercus). For other uses of "Oak" or "Oak tree", see Oak (disambiguation) The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus (from Latin "oak tree"), and some related genera, notably Cyclobalanopsis and Lithocarpus. The genus is native to the northern hemisphere, and includes deciduous and evergreen species extending from cold latitudes to tropical Asia and the Americas.
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Noun 1. oaks (synonym) genus Quercus (hypernym) hamamelid dicot genus (member-holonym) Fagaceae, family Fagaceae, beech family (member-meronym) oak, oak tree