Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cork_tree

2 senses of cork tree

Sense 1
cork tree, Phellodendron amurense -- (deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark)
       => tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Sense 2
cork tree, Erythrina vespertilio -- (prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood)
       => coral tree, erythrina -- (any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental)