Term Gallery logo

Significados de cork oak em inglês

português
sobreiro
catalão
surera
espanhol
alcornoque

Medium-sized evergreen oak of southern Europe and northern Africa having thick corky bark that is periodically stripped to yield commercial cork.

sobreiro
Uso de cork oak em inglês
1
Bark is carefully stripped from cork oak trees in Portugal's central-south Alentejo region.
Reuters
2
We built a house in a cork oak forest.
The Guardian
3
The cork oak is one of the important trees.
A Journey Through France in War Time
4
Environmentalists say cork oak forests are threatened by the rise in plastic stoppers and metal screw-tops.
Reuters
5
Sardinia possesses a cork oak, which yields 13 to 14 per cent.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891
6
The Iberian Peninsula is home to some 42 species of birds that rely on the twisted cork oak forest for survival.
The Irish Times
7
These trees would, it is predicted, have a serious effect on the landscape because eucalyptus, unlike the cork oak, grows all year round.
The Irish Times
8
And did you know that the Quercus suber or cork oak, the one you see in southern France, Spain and elsewhere, grows in Ireland?
The Irish Times
9
WE go next to Lixus, a city nestled in a forest of cork oak trees so old that they saw the Carthaginians rise and fall.
Daughters of the Nile
10
In nature, the unique cellular bark protects cork oaks from frequent forest fires.
Reuters
11
In the hills above Portimão, Portugal, the autumn sun beats down on a high winding road flanked by cork oaks and cypress and eucalyptus.
BBC
12
(*The cork oak is mentioned in some works on Cyprus as indigenous to the island; this is a mistake.
Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879
Translations for cork oak
português
sobreiro
espanhol
alcornoque