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单词 cork-tree
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cork-treen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcork-tree.
1. The cork-oak ( Quercus suber), from which cork is obtained. (See cork n.1 4.)
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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).
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