Oak (disambiguation)

The word oak can refer to:

Plants

• 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.

Places

• 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
• Oakleigh railway station, Melbourne, Australia; station code OAK.
• Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California USA; IATA airport code OAK.

People

• Purushottam Nagesh (P.N.) Oak, controversial Indian historian
• Warren "Oak" Felder, a music producer

Fictional characters

• Professor Oak, the first featured professor of the anime, manga, and RPG series Pokémon and the leading professor of the Kanto region.
• Dark Oak, a character from the third season of Sonic X.

Other

• Oak (wine), the use of oak in winemaking
• OAK is a popular brand of flavoured milk in Australia, produced by Dairy Farmers.
• In computer science Oak is a programming language by Sun Microsystems, it later evolved into the Java programming language.
• United Aircraft Building Corporation (Russian: OAK), company formed by the merger of several Russian aerospace firms.
• Quercus (organization) - Environment organization in Portugal.
• An Oak Tree, a sculpture by Michael Craig-Martin comprising a glass of water on a shelf.

See also

• Oaks