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Definition of corkwood

Corkwood
Corkwood Cork"wood` (k[^o]rk"w[oo^]d`), n. 1. The wood of the cork oak. [Obs.] 2. Any one of several trees or shrubs having light or corky wood; esp.: (a) In the United States, the tree Leitneria floridana. (b) In the West Indies: (1) Either of the cotton trees Ochroma lagopus and Pariti tiliaceum. (2) The tree producing the aligator apple. (3) The blolly.
corkwood
Porkwood Pork"wood`, n. (Bot.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.

Meaning of corkwood from wikipedia

- Corkwood is a common name of a number of plants: Ackama paniculosa, a soft barked corkwood from Australia in the coachwood family Annona glabra, found...
- Endiandra sieberi, known as the corkwood is a rainforest tree growing in eastern Australia. A common tree on lowland and some mountain rainforests. Very...
- Musanga cecropioides, the African corkwood tree or umbrella tree, is found in tropical Africa from Sierra Leone south to Angola and east to Uganda. It...
- USS Corkwood (AN-44/YN-63) was an Ailanthus-class net laying ship which served with the U.S. Navy in the western Pacific Ocean theatre of operations during...
- tree native to north and north-east Australia. Its common names are grey corkwood, bat's wing coral tree, yulbah and the more ambiguous "bean tree". In the...
- called because American alligators often eat the fruit), swamp apple, corkwood, bobwood, and monkey apple. The tree is native to Florida in the United...
- deadly nightshade (Belladonna), mandrake (Mandragora officinarum), and corkwood (Duboisia). The biosynthesis of scopolamine begins with the decarboxylation...
- grows in southeastern Australia Corkwood wattle, Acacia oshanesii Corkybark wattle, Acacia sericophylla Vac****ia Corkwood wattle, Vac****ia bidwillii or...
- Commiphora saxicola, also known as rock corkwood, is a shrub species in the genus Commiphora endemic to, and protected in, Namibia. It grows on rock slopes...
- divaricata, commonly known as needlewood, corkbark tree or fork-leaved corkwood, is a tree or shrub in the family Proteaceae native to an area in central...