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corkwood|ˈkɔːkwʊd|
[f. cork n.1 + wood.]
†1. Cork in the mass. Obs.
1769Priestley in Phil. Trans. LIX. 63 The black side of a piece of cork-wood.
2. A name given in various parts of the world to various light and porous woods, and the trees yielding them; e.g. in the West Indies to Anona palustris, Ochroma Lagopus, Hibiscus (Paritium tiliaceum); in N.S. Wales to Duboisia myoporoides; in New Zealand to Entelea arborescens.
1756P. Browne Jamaica 256 The Alligator Apple Tree or Cork-wood.. The wood of this tree is so soft, even after it is dried, that it is frequently used..instead of corks. 1866Treas. Bot. 800 Ochroma, the well-known Corkwood tree..is very common in the West Indies and Central America, where its soft spongy and exceedingly light wood, called Corkwood in Jamaica, is commonly employed as a substitute for cork. 1882J. Smith Dict. Plants 133. 1889 T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 45 The whau..is termed corkwood by the settlers on account of its light specific gravity. 1946Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. June 160 Whau, a tree (Entelea arborescens) cork-wood, the lightest of Newzealand timbers.
3. A name of the White Cork Boletus (Polyporus niveus, formerly Boletus suberosus), which grows on the trunks of trees.
So commonly called in the South of Scotland. |