cork tree

American  

[kawrk tree] / ˈkɔrk ˌtri /

noun

1. cork oak.

2. any of several Asian citrus trees of the genus Phellodendron, a number of which have a corky bark.

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Etymology

Origin of cork tree

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English

Example Sentences

Conservation technician Drew Goebel at Cincinnati City Parks said one example is the cemetery's beautiful Amur cork tree, a state-record tree.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023

Some researchers theorize that death caps immigrated in the soil of a cork tree transported from Europe to California to make corks for a then burgeoning wine industry.

From National Geographic • Aug. 31, 2023

In one famous example, Lawson depicts Ferdinand’s favorite cork tree with bunches of wine corks hanging among the leaves.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2017

I’d just sit there with it, beneath an overpass, like Ferdinand the bull under his cork tree.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2015

They have between 30 and 40 bee-hives in long wooden cases or trunks of trees, with a covering of the bark of the cork tree.

From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman