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