Cork
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Cork may refer to:
English Wiktionary has a dictionary definition (word meaning) for:
English Wiktionary has a dictionary definition (word meaning) for:
- Places
- Cork, Ireland includes
- Cork (city), a city in the Republic of Ireland
- County Cork, the largest and southernmost county in Ireland
- Cork Harbour, a natural harbour and estuary
- Cork International Airport, just outside the Irish city
- Metropolitan Cork
- Objects and materials
- Cork (material), a material used for bottle stoppers and noteboards
- Cork is often used to refer to a stopper (plug)
- In botany
- Cork Oak (Quercus suber) is a species of tree
- Chinese Cork Oak (Quercus variabilis) is a species of tree
- Cork-tree, Phellodendron is a genus of plants native to east and north-east Asia
- Cork cambium, a tissue found in woody plants
- In sports
- Cork City F.C., a football club
- Cork GAA Gaelic athletic association
- People
- Bruce Cork (died 1994), American physicist
- Dominic Cork (born 1971), English cricketer
- Miscellaneous
- Corky is a female orca living in captivity
- Cork taint, a condition when wine is spoilt by a chemical reaction
- Diocese of Cork and Ross (Roman Catholic) formed in the 1950s from two older diocese