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- 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 Quercus suber In A Sentence
- Equinoctial America nowhere produces, not even on the back of the Andes, an oak resembling the Quercus suber; and neither the light wood of the bombax, the ochroma, and other malvaceous plants, nor the rhachis of maize, of which the natives make use, can well supply the place of our corks. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
- Quercus suber, which is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. Undefined
- Cork is the outer protective layer of an evergreen oak, Quercus suber, that is native to the western Mediterranean. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen