The formation of white, cork-like striations on a jalapeño pepper.

simple past tense and past participle of cork

Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork. / Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork. / Blackened by burnt cork.

(slang) To be quiet; to shut up.

A kind of strawboard or cardboard in which ground cork is mixed with the paper pulp.

A type of evergreen oak tree, Quercus suber, native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa.

plural of cork oak

A wine fault characterized by a set of undesirable smells or tastes, sometimes caused by tribromoanisole.

plural of corking pin

(obsolete) A large pin used to attach a woman's headdress to a cork mould.