cork tree

2. Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Phellodendron native to eastern Asia and cultivated as an ornamental, especially P. amurense, having deeply furrowed, thick, corky bark.

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Noun	1.	cork tree - deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark Phellodendron amurense genus Phellodendron, Phellodendron - small genus of aromatic deciduous trees of east Asia often having thick corky bark tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
	2.	cork tree - prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood Erythrina vespertilio coral tree, erythrina - any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental

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anecdote coral tree Cork cork oak Erythrina Erythrina vespertilio genus Phellodendron Phellodendron Phellodendron amurense	Sancho likewise held his peace and ate acorns, and paid repeated visits to the second wine-skin, which they had hung up on a cork tree to keep the wine cool. Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context In a similar manner to that described in the Geological Transactions, the tubes are generally compressed, and have deep longitudinal furrows, so as closely to resemble a shrivelled vegetable stalk, or the bark of the elm or cork tree. The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context	Coricidin Coridine Corindon Corinne Corinth Corinthiac Corinthian Corinthian order Corinthians Coriolanus Coriolis effect Coriolis force corious corium Corival Corivalry Corixa corixid Corixidae Cork cork cambium Cork fossil cork jacket Cork jackets cork oak cork tree cork up cork-tipped corkage corkboard corked corker Corkiness corking corking pin Corkonian corkscrew corkscrew flower corkscrew stairs corkwing corkwood corkwood family corkwood tree corky corm Cormack cormel Cormogeny Cormophylogeny cormophyte Cormophytes	Cork City Football Club Cork City Local Employment Service Cork Council of Trade Unions Cork Electronics Industry Association Cork Fossil Cork Fossil Cork Fossil Cork Fossil cork high and bottle deep Cork Institute of Technology Cork Institute of Technology Students Union Cork International Film Festival Cork International Language Academy cork jacket Cork jackets Cork Language Centre International Cork Local Voluntary Youth Council cork oak cork oak cork oaks cork oaks Cork Online Law Review cork paint Cork Quality Council Cork Screw Cork Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Cork taint Cork taint cork tile cork tree Cork University Hospital Cork University Maternity Hospital cork up cork up cork worker's lung Cork Worker’s Syndrome Cork, Ireland - Cork Cork, Richard Boyle, 1st earl of cork-tipped Cork-tree Cork-tree corkage corkage corkages corkages corkboard corkboard corkboard corked corked corked corked corker corkers corkier corkiest corkiness corking corking corking

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Sancho likewise held his peace and ate acorns, and paid repeated visits to the second wine-skin, which they had hung up on a cork tree to keep the wine cool.

Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context

In a similar manner to that described in the Geological Transactions, the tubes are generally compressed, and have deep longitudinal furrows, so as closely to resemble a shrivelled vegetable stalk, or the bark of the elm or cork tree.

The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context

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