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Noun: cork tree  kork tree
  1. Deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark
    - Phellodendron amurense
     
  2. Prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood
    - Erythrina vespertilio

Derived forms: cork trees

Type of: coral tree, erythrina, tree

Part of: genus Phellodendron, Phellodendron

Encyclopedia: Cork tree

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