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Noun: cork oak  kork owk
  1. Medium-sized evergreen oak of southern Europe and northern Africa having thick corky bark that is periodically stripped to yield commercial cork
    "Cork oak forests in Portugal supply much of the world's natural cork";
    - Quercus suber

Derived forms: cork oaks

Type of: oak, oak tree

Encyclopedia: Cork oak