A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Suber,-eris (s.n.III), abl. sg. subere, nom.& acc. pl. subera: cork, the light, thick outer bark of the cork oak [Quercus suber L.], attaining great thickness; the outer bark of the stem of woody plants; a thick bark; “cork. The epiphloeum of bark, when it acquires an elastic soft texture, and is preternaturally enlarged” (Lindley) [> L. suber,-eris (s.n.III), the cork-oak, cork-tree, Quercus suber L.; Gk. = phello-, q.v.]; see cortex,-icis (s.m.III); see oak;

- lignam levissimum, suberis instar (Swartz), the wood is very light-weight, like cork.

- [fungus] Lycogala globosum, rubrum, grani panici magnitudine, & forma, Pisas inter, & Liburnum, ad subera (Mich.), Lycogala globosum, red, with the size of a grain [i.e. seed] of panicum, and its form, on cork-trees between Pisa and Liburnum.

- [Lichen] in glandiferarum arborum caudicibus ubique apud nos, sed cum receptaculis florum inter Liburnum, & Vallem Benedictam, ad Subera dumtaxat legitur (Mich.), collected on the trunks of nut-bearing trees everywhere in our region, but [with the receptacles of the flowers [i.e. fruiting structures] between [the administrative district] Liburnum, and [Valley Benedict], entirely on Suber [Quercus suber L., the Cork-tree].