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ˈcork-tree
1. The cork-oak (Quercus Suber), from which cork is obtained. (See cork n.1 4.)
c1440Promp. Parv. 93 Corktre, suberies. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 101 b, The corke tree..in Spanishe Alcornoque. 1759Ellis in Phil. Trans. LI. 206, I sent governor Ellis in the year 1757..some acorns of the cork-tree. 1814Southey Roderick x, The cork-tree's furrow'd rind. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. s.v. Cork, The cork-tree at the age of twenty-five years is barked for the first time.
2. Applied to various trees with light or soft wood resembling cork, as Entelea arborescens of New Zealand, Millingtonia hortensis of the East Indies. |