cork

Question

hello can you explen what cork mean

Answer 1

James Santiago said:

Your native language is Spanish and you've never heard the word corcho? As in a sacacorchos (corkscrew), que saca el corcho de una botella de vino?

I've used and heard the word "corcho" dozens of thousands of times in my life in Spain. Apart from the bottle cork, the (cork) bark of the trees is also called "corcho", and also, informally, the styrofoam (or expanded polystyrene = poliestireno expandido).

Answer 2

Answer 3

http://www.idealspain.com/pages/information/cork.htm
http://www.iberianature.com/material/cork_trees_spain.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_March_27/ai_n16...

I was hoping that one of these sites would mention the spanish word for cork, but no such luck,

Answer 4

mario said:

but I never heard this word in spanish corcho

Your native language is Spanish and you've never heard the word corcho? As in a sacacorchos (corkscrew), que saca el corcho de una botella de vino'

Answer 5

but I never heard this word in spanish corcho

Answer 6

Cork means Corcho