cork oak in English

noun
1
an evergreen Mediterranean oak, the outer layer of the bark of which is the source of cork, which can be stripped without harming the tree.
The bark of the cork oak tree, found in Spain, Portugal, and North Africa, can be almost entirely stripped each harvest without harming the tree, which regenerates itself.

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1. Coppices of cork oak trees with their oddly blackened trunks.

2. WidgetCo Corks are made from the outer bark of the Mediterranean "cork oak" tree

3. In the higher and wetter portions of the Tell Atlas, cork oak and Aleppo pine grow in thick soils.

4. Cork definition is - the elastic tough outer tissue of the Cork oak that is used especially for stoppers and insulation

5. To produce a high-quality stopper, cork oak must be at least 50 years old, although the first harvest can be obtained 25 years after planting the acorn.

6. As nouns the difference between cork and Bung is that cork is (uncountable) the bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material or cork can be (snowboarding) a snowboarding aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead while Bung is