Cork-tree

1. The cork-oak (Quercus Suber), from which cork is obtained. (See CORK sb.¹ 4.)

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c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 93. Corktre, suberies.

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1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 101 b. The corke tree … in Spanishe Alcornoque.

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1759. Ellis, in Phil. Trans., LI. 206. I sent governor Ellis in the year 1757 … some acorns of the cork-tree.

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1814. Southey, Roderick, X. The cork-tree’s furrow’d rind.

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1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., s.v. Cork, The cork-tree at the age of twenty-five years is barked for the first time.

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2. Applied to various trees with light or soft wood resembling cork, as Entelea arborescens of New Zealand, Millingtonia hortensis of the East Indies.

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