cork oak

noun

cork(def 2).

Words nearby cork oak

corium, corixid, corizza, cork, cork cambium, cork oak, cork tree, cork-tipped, corkage, corkboard, corked

Origin of cork oak

First recorded in 1870–75

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Examples from the Web for cork oak

The horse halted under the cork-oak, but the man did not dismount.
The Wolf Cub|Patrick Casey
The cork-oak covers considerable tracts, but is less attended to than in Spain.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118|Various
For a distance of eight or ten miles groves of cork-oak trees were in sight.
A Trip to the Orient|Robert Urie Jacob
Common cork is the thick corky layer of the bark of the Cork-Oak of Spain.
The Elements of Botany|Asa Gray

And Jacques Ferou carried all the weapons to the pile beneath the cork-oak tree.
The Wolf Cub|Patrick Casey

British Dictionary definitions for cork oak

cork oak

noun

an evergreen Mediterranean oak tree, Quercus suber, with a porous outer bark from which cork is obtainedAlso called: cork tree

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cork oak

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