Oak

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Oak or 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

• Oak, California
• 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, Australia; station code OAK
• Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California USA; IATA airport code OAK

People

• P.N. Oak, controversial Indian historian
• Oak (producer), a music producer
• Charles Oakley, basketball player

Fictional characters

• Professor Oak, the first featured professor of the anime, manga, and RPG series Pokémon and the leading professor of the Kanto region, and his grandson, who has been identified as Green, Blue, and Gary.
• Dark Oak, a character from the third season of Sonic X
• Mr. Oak, a character from the Doctor Who story Fury from the Deep.

Computer science

• Oak (programming language) was a programming language that evolved into Java

• [The original version of Java (Oak) included features for intraaddress-space messaging]

Other

• Oak (wine), the use of oak in winemaking
• Oakland Athletics, abbreviated OAK, a Major League Baseball team
• OAK is a popular brand of flavoured milk in Australia, owned by Parmalat
• 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
• Donar Oak, legendary Germanic tree sacred to Donar
• Oak Technology, defunct chipset maker

See also

• Oaks (disambiguation)
• Oak Creek
• Oak Tree (disambiguation)

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