单词 | cork-tree |
释义 | cork-treen. 1. The cork-oak ( Quercus suber), from which cork is obtained. (See cork n.1 4.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > cork-oak cork-treec1440 suber1579 cork1601 alcornoque1821 cork oak1873 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > oak as timber tree > cork-tree cork-treec1440 cork1601 alcornoque1821 cork oak1873 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 93 Corktre, suberies. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 101v The Corke tree,..in Spanishe Alcornoque. 1760 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 206 I sent governor Ellis in the year 1757..some acorns of the cork-tree. 1814 R. Southey Roderick x The cork-tree's furrow'd rind. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 622/2 The cork-tree at the age of twenty-five years is barked for the first time. 2. Applied to various trees with light or soft wood resembling cork, as Entelea arborescens of New Zealand, Millingtonia hortensis of the East Indies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1440 |
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