NOUN
- medium-sized evergreen oak of southern Europe and northern Africa having thick corky bark that is periodically stripped to yield commercial cork
How To Use cork oak In A Sentence
- The high mountains support typical evergreen forests of firs and cypress, whilst on the lower slopes are to be found such trees as pines, chestnuts, and cork oak.
- The Arboretum contains four hundred species of tree and shrub including walnut, beech, cedar, giant thuya, cypress and cork oak.
- The variety of substrates and climates leads to a diverse mix of vegetation including holm oak forests, cork oak forests, wild olive and carob woodlands, as well as extensive Berber thuya forest. Mediterranean woodlands and forests
- Made from the inner bark of the Mediterranean cork oak tree, cork can be cut repeatedly from trees that may be hundreds of years old.
- The hollow, fluting song poured between the cork oaks, as rich as honey.
- We pass through pine woodlands and stands of eucalyptus, and encounter wild quince, olive and almond trees and cork oaks stripped of their bark. Times, Sunday Times
- We pass through pine woodlands and stands of eucalyptus, and encounter wild quince, olive and almond trees and cork oaks stripped of their bark. Times, Sunday Times
- Farming in the cork oak forests helps support a host of wildlife, including the lynx. The Sun
- Farming in the cork oak forests helps support a host of wildlife, including the lynx. The Sun
- The cork oaks, olive and carob trees in the foothills and serras are evergreens.
