Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various trees having soft lightweight wood, especially.
- noun A deciduous shrub or small tree (Leitneria floridana) native to wet regions of the southeast United States.
- noun Any of certain Australian shrubs or small trees of the genus Duboisia having leaves used for the commercial extraction of belladonna alkaloids.
- noun The wood of any of these trees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several West Indian trees with light or porous wood, as the Anona palustris, Ochroma Lagopus, Paritium tiliaceum, and Pisonia obtusata.
- noun In Australia, any one of several trees having very light or soft and easily worked wood, or the wood itself.
- noun See
whau .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The wood of the cork oak.
- noun Any one of several trees or shrubs having light or corky wood
- noun In the United States, the tree
Leitneria floridana , a very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in the southeastern US having extremely light wood; -- called also thecorkwood tree . - noun In the West Indies: (1) Either of the cotton trees
Ochroma lagopus andPariti tiliaceum .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
shrub of the south-easternUnited States .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rounding a bend past a corkwood copse, I had to swerve to avoid an extinct Holden smack in the middle of the track.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Rounding a bend past a corkwood copse, I had to swerve to avoid an extinct Holden smack in the middle of the track.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Everything bore a peculiar hue of green, from the groves of myrtle, pimento and corkwood to the grassy plots, the natural fields of oats and even to the moss-covered rocks of the spinelike mountains.
Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America Roy Rockwood
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Another road, little better than a bridle - path, runs northward to Ximena and through the corkwood forests of that plain towards the mountain ranges that rise between Ronda and the sea.
In Kedar's Tents Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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A few quandongs, or native peach trees, exist amongst these gullies; also a tree that I only know by the name of the corkwood tree.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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He is obstructed from a mercerized degree online psychology and he grivet for hauling to haiti his corkwood if inattentively else.
Rational Review 2009
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The researchers recommend scopolamine, which is extracted from the corkwood tree, as the first-line antispasmodic treatment for IBS.
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The researchers recommend scopolamine, which is extracted from the corkwood tree, as the first-line antispasmodic treatment for IBS.
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The researchers recommend scopolamine, which is extracted from the corkwood tree, as the first-line antispasmodic treatment for IBS.
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The researchers recommend scopolamine, which is extracted from the corkwood tree, as the first-line antispasmodic treatment for IBS.
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