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 In Australia, any one of several trees having very light or soft and easily worked wood, or the wood itself.
- noun See
whau . - noun One of several West Indian trees with light or porous wood, as the Anona palustris, Ochroma Lagopus, Paritium tiliaceum, and Pisonia obtusata.
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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