grey corkwood

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grey corkwood (plural grey corkwoods)

  1. (Australia) A flowering tree, Erythrina vespertilio, of north and northeastern Australia.
    • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 127:
      The gate was five-barred, put together from crooked tree limbs, grey corkwood and sally wattle, iron coachbolts drilled through at the joints [] .