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Definition of Silver oak
1. Noun. Small slender tree with usually entire grey-green pendulous leaves and white or cream-colored flowers; northern Australia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Oak
Literary usage of Silver oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Military and Naval Recognition Book: A Handbook on the Organization by Joel William Bunkley (1918)
"... a silver oak sprig of three leaves and three acorns; for professors of
mathematics, a silver oak leaf and an acorn; for naval constructors a gold sprig ..."
2. Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica (ninth Edition): A Dictionary of Arts (1889)
"... a silver Latin cross; pro/asort, a silver oak leaf and acorn ... anchor at
each cud; commanders, silver oak leaf at each end with a foul anchor between; ..."
3. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"The other devices used are: For the medical corps, a spread oak leaf of dead
gold, with a silver acorn; for the pay corps, a silver oak sprig; ..."
4. A Squadron of the United States Navy: On a Friendly Cruise Around Latin America by William Wallace Swinyer (1918)
"Commander—A silver oak leaf and a silver foul anchor in the rear of the leaf.
... Pay Officers—A silver oak sprig of three leaves and three acorns inscribed ..."
5. Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by American supplement, Encyclopaedia britannica (1886)
"Medical corps, gold spread oak leaf with silver acorn on it; pay corps, a silver
oak sprig ; engineer corps, four silver oak leaves ..."
6. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee": From the Diary of Number Five of the Afterport by Russell Doubleday (1898)
"A silver oak sprig and a narrow band of white cloth above and below the gold ...
Four silver oak leaves, and a band of red cloth above and below the gold ..."
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