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Corkwood

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Noun

1. corkwood, corkwood tree, leitneria floridana

very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Corkwood

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noun
1. 
a small tree, Leitneria floridana, of the southeastern US, having very lightweight porous wood: family Leitneriaceae
2. 
any other tree with light porous wood
3. 
the wood of any of these trees

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Corkwood

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noun
1. 
any of several trees whose wood is very light
; specif.,
a.  US
the only species (Leitneria floridana) of a family (Leitneriaceae, order Leitneriales) of dicotyledonous shrubs or small trees found in swampy regions of the SE U.S.
b.  US
the balsa
2. 
the wood of any of these trees

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Corkwood

see synonyms of corkwood
n.
1. Any of various trees having soft lightweight wood, especially:
a. A deciduous shrub or small tree (Leitneria floridana) native to wet regions of the southeast United States.
b. See balsa.
c. Any of certain Australian shrubs or small trees of the genus Duboisia having leaves used for the commercial extraction of belladonna alkaloids.
2. The wood of any of these trees.

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