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cork tree en · NOUN
Meanings
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A cork oak (Quercus subor)
He was going home one night from one of these festive occasions, being under engagement for another in the morning, and [...] contrived to lose his way. After trying in vain to find it, he wrapped his cloak about him, and lay down for the night at the foot of a cork-tree.
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 461:
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Any member of the species of genus Phellodendron, including any Amur cork tree.
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A prickly Australian coral tree (Erythrina vespertilis) with soft spongy wood.
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A portia tree (Thespesia populnea).
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