Cork

Cork could mean:

 Places 
 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), a species of tree
 Chinese Cork Oak (Quercus variabilis), a species of tree
 Cork-tree, Phellodendron, a genus of plants native to east and northeast 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

 Other 
 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

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