cork tree

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: cork tree

1	n	deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark
2	n	prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: cork tree

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

Type 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

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