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cork tree
[ kawrk tree ]
noun
- any of several Asian citrus trees of the genus Phellodendron, a number of which have a corky bark.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cork tree1
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Example Sentences
Amazingly, the cork tree actually benefits from the harvesting process.
It was lying with his cartouche-box right away by the stunted oak, as he mentally called the cork-tree.
Some of us sought for him nearly two days, and at last found him lying in the hollow of a large cork-tree.
My usual abode is in the hollow of a cork-tree, large enough to enclose this wretched body.
At length Sancho fell asleep at the foot of a cork-tree, while Don Quixote slumbered beneath a branching oak.
The mahogany and cork tree grow here, and the bark of the latter is largely used by the natives.
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