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CORK TREE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood

Synonyms:

cork tree; Erythrina vespertilio

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cork tree" is a kind of...):

coral tree; erythrina (any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark

Synonyms:

cork tree; Phellodendron amurense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cork tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("cork tree" is a member of...):

genus Phellodendron; Phellodendron (small genus of aromatic deciduous trees of east Asia often having thick corky bark)

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