Corktreeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cork tree (plural cork trees)

1. A cork oak (Quercus subor)
   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 461:

     He was going home one night from one of these festive occasions, being under engagement for another in the morning, and [...] contrived to lose his way. After trying in vain to find it, he wrapped his cloak about him, and lay down for the night at the foot of a cork-tree.

2. Any member of the species of genus Phellodendron, including any Amur cork tree.
3. A prickly Australian coral tree (Erythrina vespertilis) with soft spongy wood.
4. A portia tree (Thespesia populnea).

参照

• “cork tree”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• cork tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cork tree on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:cork tree on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons