Cork Oak Definition

Cork Oak Sentence Examples

• Other trees of southern France are the cork-oak and the Aleppo and maritime pines.

• The outer layer of bark in the cork oak by annual additions from within gradually becomes a thick soft homogeneous mass, possessing those compressible and elastic properties upon which the economic value of the material chiefly depends.

• Though specially developed in the cork-oak, the substance cork is an almost universal product in the stems (and roots) of woody plants which increase in diameter year by year.

• Where the formation is extensive and persistent as in the cork-oak, a thick covering of cork is formed.

• In northern Russia a similar method to that used for obtaining cork from the cork-oak is employed with the birch.