0 a large tree that is common in northern countries, or the hard wood of this tree:
1 a large tree common in northern countries, or the hard wood of this tree:
For the organizers of the commemoration the oak carried a number of loyalist and patriotic accretions.
Analogously, fully grown oak trees would in this way have a perfection, though of a limited kind.
For example, the timber cladding is oak, left to age naturally.