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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

• Syn: ↑Phellodendron amurense

• Hypernyms: ↑tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Phellodendron, ↑genus Phellodendron

2. prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood

• Syn: ↑Erythrina vespertilio

• Hypernyms: ↑coral tree, ↑erythrina

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noun

1. : cork oak

2. Australia : a prickly Australian coral tree (Erythrina vespertilis) with soft spongy wood

3. : an Asiatic tree (Phellodendron amurense) with compound leaves, a turpentine odor when bruised, and deeply fissured corky bark

4. West Indies : portia tree

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1. the cork oak, Quercus suber, of the beech family.

2. any of several Asian citrus trees of the genus Phellodendron, having a corky bark.

[1400-50; late ME]

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cork tree,

= cork oak. (Cf. ↑cork oak)

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(also corktree) n.

1) another term for cork oak

2) an Asian citrus tree with a corky bark. ● Genus Phellodendron, family Rutaceae: several species, including P. sachalinense, often cultivated as on ornamental

Useful english dictionary. 2012.