cortiça

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cortiça

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cortiça, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *sker- (“cut”). Doublet of cortíceo.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧ça

Noun

cortiça f (usually uncountable, plural cortiças)

  1. cork (bark of the cork oak)
  2. (botany) cork (tissue between the bark and cambium of woody plants)
    Synonyms: súber, felema

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