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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Porkwood \Pork"wood`\, n. (Bot.)
     The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree
     ({Pisonia obtusata}) of Florida and the West Indies. Also
     called {pigeon wood}, {beefwood}, and {corkwood}.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Corkwood \Cork"wood`\ (k[^o]rk"w[oo^]d`), n.
     1. The wood of the cork oak. [Obs.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. Any one of several trees or shrubs having light or corky
        wood; esp.:
        (a) In the United States, the tree {Leitneria floridana},
            a very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp
            habitats in the southeastern US having extremely light
            wood; -- called also the {corkwood tree}.
        (b) In the West Indies: (1) Either of the cotton trees
            {Ochroma lagopus} and {Pariti tiliaceum}. (2) The tree
            producing the aligator apple. (3) The blolly.
            [Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  corkwood
       n : very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp
           habitats in southeastern United States having extremely
           light wood [syn: {corkwood tree}, {Leitneria floridana}]

















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