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cork trees

cork trees is the plural of cork tree.

Meaning of cork tree

Noun

cork tree (plural cork trees)

  1. A cork oak (Quercus subor)
    • He was going home one night from one of these festive occasions, being under engagement for another in the morning, and [...] contrived to lose his way. After trying in vain to find it, he wrapped his cloak about him, and lay down for the night at the foot of a cork-tree.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 461
  2. Any member of the species of genus Phellodendron, including any Amur cork tree.
  3. A prickly Australian coral tree (Erythrina vespertilis) with soft spongy wood.
  4. A portia tree (Thespesia populnea).

Questions about cork trees

What is cork trees the plural of?
Cork trees is the plural of cork tree.

Words near cork trees in the dictionary

  1. cork taint
  2. cork tip
  3. cork tipped
  4. cork tips
  5. cork tree
  6. cork trees
  7. cork up
  8. cork wood
  9. cork woods
  10. cork-board
  11. cork-boards

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