alcornoque
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English
Noun
alcornoque
- The plant Bowdichia virgilioides.
Alternative forms
Portuguese
Etymology
From Mozarabic *alqurnúq, from Latin quernus (“relating to oak”).
Pronunciation
Noun
alcornoque m (plural alcornoques)
- (botany) tree of the fagaceae family (Quercus suber) from which cork is extracted
- (Alentejo) old cork oak trunk
Further reading
- “alcornoque”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
Etymology
From Mozarabic *alqurnúq, from the Arabic article al- + quernus, variation of Latin quercus + Hispanic suffix -occus.
Pronunciation
Noun
alcornoque m (plural alcornoques)
- cork oak
- cork (bark of the cork oak)
- Synonym: corcho
- (slang) nincompoop
Derived terms
Further reading
- “alcornoque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28