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.

Did you know that a cork oak can live for 200 years?

Cork is actually the bark of a Cork Oak Tree-in which 50% of the entire cork supply of the world is grown and harvested in Portugal.