CORK TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cork tree mean? 

• CORK TREE (noun)
  The noun CORK TREE has 2 senses:

1. deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark

2. prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood

  Familiarity information: CORK TREE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORK TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cork tree; Phellodendron amurense

Hypernyms ("cork tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("cork tree" is a member of...):

genus Phellodendron; Phellodendron (small genus of aromatic deciduous trees of east Asia often having thick corky bark)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cork tree; Erythrina vespertilio

Hypernyms ("cork tree" is a kind of...):

coral tree; erythrina (any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental)

 Context examples 

A proprietary formulation consisting of a Phellodendron amurense (Amur cork tree) bark extract, often used in traditional Chinese medicine, with anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and potential chemopreventive and antineoplastic activities.

(Phellodendron amurense Bark Extract, NCI Thesaurus)