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Cork tree   /kɔrk tri/   Listen
Cork tree

noun
1.
Deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark.  Synonym: Phellodendron amurense.
2.
Prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood.  Synonym: Erythrina vespertilio.






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"Cork tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sarnus, and the dwellers in Rufrae and Batulum, and the fields of Celemnae, and they on whom from her apple orchards Abella city looks down. Their wont was to hurl lances in Teutonic fashion; their head covering was stripped bark of the cork tree, their shield-plates glittering ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil • Virgil

... to Spoleto was a succession of olive grounds, vineyards, and rich woods. The vines with their skeleton boughs looked wintry and miserable; but the olives, now in full fruit and foliage, intermixed with the cypress, the ilex, the cork tree, and the pine, clothed the landscape with a ...
— The Diary of an Ennuyee • Anna Brownell Jameson

... by two ledges of ponderous rock, extends a smooth level of greensward.... The Hermitage, its cell, chapel, and refectory, are all scooped out of the native marble, and lined with the bark of the cork tree. Several of the passages are not only roofed, but floored with the same material ... The shrubberies and garden-plots dispersed amongst the mossy rocks ... are delightful, and I took great pleasure in ... following the course of a transparent ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron



Words linked to "Cork tree" :   genus Phellodendron, Erythrina vespertilio, erythrina, Phellodendron amurense, Phellodendron, tree, coral tree



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