corkwood

American  

[kawrk-wood] / ˈkɔrkˌwʊd /

noun

1. a stout shrub or small tree, Leitneria floridana, having light green deciduous leaves, woolly catkins, and a drupaceous fruit.

2. any of certain trees and shrubs yielding a light and porous wood, as the balsa.

---

corkwood British  

/ ˈkɔːkˌwʊd /

noun

1. a small tree, Leitneria floridana, of the southeastern US, having very lightweight porous wood: family Leitneriaceae

2. any other tree with light porous wood

3. the wood of any of these trees

---

Etymology

Origin of corkwood

First recorded in 1750–60; cork + wood ¹

Example Sentences

A few quandongs, or native peach trees, exist amongst these gullies; also a tree that I only know by the name of the corkwood tree.

From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Giles, Ernest

It is about two inches in diameter, four-sided rather than round, with rough, corrugated, withered bark, in appearance similar to the corkwood bark used for rustic summer-houses in England.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon

Everything bore a peculiar hue of green, from the groves of myrtle, pimento and corkwood to the grassy plots, the natural fields of oats and even to the moss-covered rocks of the spinelike mountains.

From Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America by Rockwood, Roy

Webubu then built himself a platform high in a corkwood tree, which we call "troba" on the beach, and seating himself there he began to play his flute.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 1 by Patten, William

Then straightway what he had feared came to pass, and Webubu, and his flute, and the multitude of women fell crashing through the branches of the corkwood tree to the ground beneath.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 1 by Patten, William