cork-oak

Pigs are raised and consumed all over Portugal, from the semi-wild black hogs that root for acorns in the cork-oak forest in the southern Alentejo, to the home-reared swine whose blood and innards contribute to unctuous northern specialities like papas de sarabulho.

Big-Time Barbecue Paul Ames 2009

Groves of walnut and cork-oak, little orchards of almond and lemon, cover the surrounding country and grow to the foot of the walls which jut out among them in a series of sharp bastions, ingeniously contrived in the seventeenth century and never, in a long history of strife, put to the test of assault; for they enclose little of military significance.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

They drove out of the town into the land of cork-oak and almond.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

Those who had the wicked saw-backed bayonets attacked cork-oak branches, others gathered kindling, and within minutes the blue wood-smoke rose like a wavering signal in the evening sky.

Sharpe's Gold Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1981

The children declared that the cork-oak was the best tree of all, but they agreed with their governess that the entire oak family was made up of grand and useful trees.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

Rebuke awaited Captain Tremayne at the hands of Lady O'Moy, and it came as soon as they were alone together sauntering in the thicket of pine and cork-oak on the slope of the hill below the terrace.

The Snare Rafael Sabatini 1912

The road winds in and out of gullies where rivulets descend from the mountains; they are clothed in cork-oak, ilex, and other trees; golden orioles, jays, hoopoes and rollers flash among the foliage.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

Irish corporal wriggling along the branch of a cork-oak which overhung the slope.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

It was a gloomy-looking forest of tall gum-trees; nothing but dead trees, with wide spaces between, which had been barked for ages, or rather skinned like the cork-oak at harvest time.

In Search of the Castaways 1873

He had planted in the grounds of the White House the acorns of the cork-oak, black walnuts, peach, plum, and cherry stones, apple and pear seeds, and he watched their germination and growth with great interest.

Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853