Definition of "suber" [suber]

• Cork, or the corresponding layer of woody tissue below the epidermis of a plant (noun)

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• "Cork is the outer protective layer of an evergreen oak, Quercus suber, that is native to the western Mediterranean."
• "Quercus suber, which is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa."
• "On humid pseudoglei sands the vegetation includes plantations of cork oak Quercus suber, which carry large heronries, with olive Olea europea, poplars Populus spp., fig with ash Ficario-Fraxinetum angustifoliae and vine with willow Viti-Salicetum atrocinerae communities."