corkwood

IPA: kˈɔrkwʊd

Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:
Annona glabra, a plant found in the West Indies.
Commiphora angolensis or sand corkwood, a shrub species growing mainly in Angola and Namibia.
Duboisia spp., found in Australia.
Endiandra sieberi, a corkwood from Australia in the laurel family.
Caldcluvia paniculosa, a soft barked corkwood from Australia in the coachwood family.
Entelea arborescens, a species found in New Zealand.
Erythrina vespertilio (grey corkwood), a species from Australia.
Hakea suberea, a species found in Australia.
Leitneria floridana, a species found in southeastern North America.
Melicope, a genus with species in Australia.
Musanga cecropioides or African corkwood, a species found in Africa.
Sesbania grandiflora, a species found in southeast Asia and northern Australia, with edible flowers.
The wood of Quercus suber (cork oak).

Examples of "corkwood" in Sentences

Some of the plants in this garden are Sweetbay magnolia and Florida corkwood.
Rounding a bend past a corkwood copse, I had to swerve to avoid an extinct Holden smack in the middle of the track.
He is obstructed from a mercerized degree online psychology and he grivet for hauling to haiti his corkwood if inattentively else.
A few quandongs, or native peach trees, exist amongst these gullies; also a tree that I only know by the name of the corkwood tree.
The researchers recommend scopolamine, which is extracted from the corkwood tree, as the first-line antispasmodic treatment for IBS.
Another road, little better than a bridle - path, runs northward to Ximena and through the corkwood forests of that plain towards the mountain ranges that rise between Ronda and the sea.
Everything bore a peculiar hue of green, from the groves of myrtle, pimento and corkwood to the grassy plots, the natural fields of oats and even to the moss-covered rocks of the spinelike mountains.