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Definition of Corky
1. Adjective. (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin. "A corked port"
Definition of Corky
1. a. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.
Definition of Corky
1. Adjective. Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corky
1. corklike [adj CORKIER, CORKIEST] - See also: corklike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corky
Literary usage of Corky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"V. Auric'ulai DO. ; cymes lax, fruit broadly ovoid turgid narrowly grooved in
front, fertile cell not corky, empty cells contiguous inflated, calyx with one ..."
2. The Bookman (1907)
"TOLSTOY AND corky TOLSTOY IN 1906 HE afternoon was well advanced when my sister
and I reached Toula. Our train was an hour late. ..."
3. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Bark grey, soft, corky, and deeply cracked. Wood coarse-grained, spongy, soft
and perishable. The tree is mainly cultivated on ..."
4. Handbook of Modern Chemistry: Inorganic and Organic; for the Use of Students by Charles Meymott Tidy (1878)
"corky matter, or the outer layer of the plant. In the first of these three bodies,
the hydrogen and oxygen are present in the proportion to form water, ..."
5. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by Sir William Jackson Hooker, James Sowerby, William Borrer, John William Salter (1849)
"... its corolla is described in Fl. Atlant, as pale yellow and shorter than the
calyx.—WB A section of the ripe fruit is added, showing the corky keel. ..."
6. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... or more, very much exceeding the at length short-oblong Bracts of the receptacle
becoming much corky-thickened at the enlarging summit: ovary rarely ..."
7. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"... their corky tongue shall innocently play. Rise, crowned with light, imperial
Salera, rue 1 Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes ! ..."
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