Medium-sized evergreen oak of southern Europe and northern Africa having thick corky bark that is periodically stripped to yield commercial cork.
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Examples for "cork oak"
Examples for "cork oak"
1Bark is carefully stripped from cork oak trees in Portugal's central-south Alentejo region.
2We built a house in a cork oak forest.
3The cork oak is one of the important trees.
4Environmentalists say cork oak forests are threatened by the rise in plastic stoppers and metal screw-tops.
5Sardinia possesses a cork oak, which yields 13 to 14 per cent.
1It is fast growing and sustainable, harvested only once every nine years from the bark of the oak tree Quercus suber.
2And did you know that the Quercus suber or cork oak, the one you see in southern France, Spain and elsewhere, grows in Ireland?
Translations for quercus suber