CORK TREE Definition & Meaning

cork tree

[ kawrk tree ]

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noun

cork oak ( def ).
any of several Asian citrus trees of the genus Phellodendron, a number of which have a corky bark.

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Origin of cork tree¹

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English

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The material is generated by harvesting the bark from cork trees.

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

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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.

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From a distance, amid gnarled cork trees and a few low-slung farmhouses, its form evokes a massive open gray cardboard box.

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Cork comes from the bark of a cork tree; you don’t kill the tree to harvest it.

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