quercus suber

1. 1.

   medium-sized evergreen oak of southern Europe and northern Africa having thick corky bark that is periodically stripped to yield commercial cork

   Synonymscork oak

   Broaderoak

Questions about quercus suber

What does quercus suber mean?

quercus suber means "medium-sized evergreen oak of southern Europe and northern Africa having thick corky bark that is periodically stripped to yield commercial cork".

What is another word for quercus suber?

Close synonyms include cork oak. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quercus suber a common word?

quercus suber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.