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Definition of Corklike
1. resembling cork (a porous tree bark) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corklike
Literary usage of Corklike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... the cries that startled mo from my musings, ever and anon, and once there was
a shout of " Lost ball," and the ball was in the sea, floating corklike, ..."
2. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"Bark gray brown, deeply and perpendicularly furrowed into broad, flat, scaly
ridges, the branches frequently set with corklike ridges. continuing to the ..."
3. Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915: An Autobiography by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Cabot Lodge (1916)
"Patience, and minding my own business had carried me through my troubles, and I
was rising surface- ward, corklike. Large and small, I have made many ..."
4. Geography of the Central Andes: A Handbook to Accompany the La Paz Sheet of by Alan Grant Ogilvie (1922)
"The potato is alternately frozen and thawed till the water is expelled, leaving
a shrunken, light, and corklike substance known as ..."
5. Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development by Jane L. Parpart, Patricia Connelly, Eudine Barriteau (2000)
"Then large plugs were made of corklike materials and inserted into the pipes,
and finally the pump was started. Now every woman in that village has her own ..."
6. The Journal of a Naturalist by John Leonard Knapp (1829)
"If one of these rugged young shoots be cut through horizontally with a sharp
knife, its corklike bark presents the figure of a star with five or more rays, ..."
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