grey corkwood

noun

A flowering tree, Erythrina vespertilio, of north and northeastern Australia.

Meanings

noungrey corkwood (plural grey corkwoods)

plural grey corkwoods

  1. AustraliaA flowering tree, Erythrina vespertilio, of north and northeastern Australia.

    The gate was five-barred, put together from crooked tree limbs, grey corkwood and sally wattle, iron coachbolts drilled through at the joints […].

    2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 127
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