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Cork vs. Bark

The main difference between Cork and Bark is that Cork is an insulating, tough, and sticky outermost layer of cells of bark that restricts the water loss whereas, Bark is an outer protective layer of woody plants which provide storage and transport.

Key Differences

Cork serves as an insulating, tough, and waxy cell layer which refrains the water loss of stem and roots whereas; bark serves as the protective layer which provides transportation and storage of wooden plants.
Cork is a layer of bark emerging from the outer cork cambium surface of cells, while the bark is the outer protective layer of woody plants.
The cells of cork tissue are dead, and suberin is present in the cell walls of cork tissues. Conversely, the cells of bark tissues are live such as secondary phloem and cork cambium.
Samantha Walker
Jul 13, 2020
Usage of cork is in the production of table matt to prevent tables from hot pans, bung stoppers of wine bottles, insulators, coasters, sealing of lids of the containers, gaskets of engines, floors, fishing rod handles and tennis rackets, etc. On the other hand, uses of bark include the production of clapboards, resins, wall tile, latex, flavorings, medicines, spices, ropes, and clothes.
Samantha Walker
Jul 13, 2020
The formation of cork is via cork cambium, which includes cork cells and is responsible for the formation of cork, while the formation of bark is by both layers of cork cambium and vascular cambium.
Cork is itself the part or component of bark. On the flip side, the bark is composed of many layers of cork cambium, cork, phelloderm, secondary phloem, vascular cambium, and secondary xylem.
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Comparison Chart

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Cork is a tough, waxy outermost layer of cells of bark in stem and roots.
The bark is the outer layer of the stem and roots of woody plants with provides protection.

Formation

Cork cambium
Vascular cambium, Cork cambium

Cells

It has dead cells.
It has live cells of secondary phloem.

Function

Protection from water loss
Protection, storage, transportation
Aimie Carlson
Jul 13, 2020

Appearance

Woody
Waxy, tough

Cork and Bark Definitions

Cork

The lightweight elastic outer bark of the cork oak, used especially for bottle closures, insulation, floats, and crafts.
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Bark

The harsh sound uttered by a dog.

Cork

Something made of cork, especially a bottle stopper.

Bark

A sound, such as a cough, that is similar to a dog's bark.

Cork

A bottle stopper made of other material, such as plastic.

Bark

The tough outer covering of the woody stems and roots of trees, shrubs, and other woody plants. It includes all tissues outside the vascular cambium.

Cork

A small float used on a fishing line or net to buoy up the line or net or to indicate when a fish bites.
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Bark

A specific kind of bark used for a special purpose, as in tanning or medicine.

Cork

(Botany)A nonliving, water-resistant protective tissue that is formed on the outside of the cork cambium in the woody stems and roots of many seed plants. Also called phellem.

Bark

A sailing ship with from three to five masts, all of them square-rigged except the after mast, which is fore-and-aft rigged.

Cork

To stop or seal with or as if with a cork.

Bark

A small vessel that is propelled by oars or sails.

Cork

To restrain or check; hold back
Tried to cork my anger.

Bark

To utter a bark.

Cork

To blacken with burnt cork.

Bark

To make a sound similar to a bark
"The birds bark softly, sounding almost like young pups" (Charleston SC News and Courier).

Cork

(uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.

Bark

To speak sharply; snap
"a spot where you can just drop in ... without anyone's barking at you for failing to plan ahead" (Andy Birsh).

Cork

A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.

Bark

To work as a barker, as at a carnival.

Cork

An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.

Bark

To utter in a loud, harsh voice
The quarterback barked out the signals.

Cork

The cork oak, Quercus suber.

Bark

To remove bark from (a tree or log).

Cork

(botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.

Bark

To rub off the skin of; abrade
Barked my shin on the car door.

Cork

An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.

Bark

To tan or dye (leather or fabric) by steeping in an infusion of bark.

Cork

(transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.

Bark

To treat (a patient) using a medicinal bark infusion.

Cork

(transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.

Bark

(intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
The neighbour's dog is always barking.
The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.

Cork

To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.

Bark

(intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

Cork

To fill with cork.

Bark

(transitive) To speak sharply.
The sergeant barked an order.

Cork

To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.

Bark

To strip the bark from; to peel.

Cork

To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
The vicious tackle corked his leg.

Bark

To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
To bark one’s heel

Cork

(fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.

Bark

To girdle.

Cork

To perform such a maneuver.

Bark

To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
Bark the roof of a hut

Cork

Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

Bark

The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.

Cork

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

Bark

(figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.

Cork

A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

Bark

The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.

Cork

A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.

Bark

(medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.

Cork

To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

Bark

Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.

Cork

To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace.

Bark

The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.

Cork

Outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.

Bark

The envelopment or outer covering of anything.

Cork

(botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells

Bark

(obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.

Cork

A port city in southern Ireland

Bark

(poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.

Cork

The plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)

Bark

(watercraft) A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

Cork

A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line

Bark

To strip the bark from; to peel.

Cork

Close a bottle with a cork

Bark

To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.

Cork

Stuff with cork;
The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter

Bark

To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

Bark

To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; - said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

Bark

To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics.
Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed.

Bark

The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.

Bark

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.

Bark

A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

Bark

Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

Bark

A noise resembling the bark of a dog

Bark

A sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts

Bark

The sound made by a dog

Bark

Speak in an unfriendly tone;
She barked into the dictaphone

Bark

Cover with bark

Bark

Remove the bark of a tree

Bark

Make barking sounds;
The dogs barked at the stranger

Bark

Tan (a skin) with bark tannins

Cork vs. Bark

Cork is a layer of bark emerging from the outer cork cambium surface of cells, while the bark is the outer protective layer of woody plants. Cork serves as an insulating, tough, and waxy cell layer which refrains the water loss of stem and roots whereas; bark serves as the protective layer which provides transportation and storage of wooden plants.

The formation of cork is via cork cambium, and the division of the cork cambium cells includes cork cells which are responsible for the formation of cork. And the formation of bark is by both layers of cork cambium and vascular cambium. Cork is itself the part or component of bark; however, the bark is composed of many layers of cork cambium, cork, phelloderm, secondary phloem, vascular cambium, and secondary xylem. The cells of cork tissue are dead, and suberin is present in the cell walls of cork tissues, while the cells of bark tissues are live such as secondary phloem and cork cambium.

Usage of cork is in the production of table matt to prevent tables from hot pans, bung stoppers of wine bottles, insulators, coasters, sealing of lids of the containers, gaskets of engines, floors, fishing rod handles and tennis rackets, etc.; on the other hand, uses of bark include the production of clapboards, resins, wall tile, latex, flavorings, medicines, spices, ropes, and clothes.

What is Cork?

Cork is an insulating, tough, and sticky outermost layer of cells of bark that restricts the water loss from stem and roots. The division of the cork cambium cells includes cork cells which are responsible for the formation of cork. Cork is one of the layers among other layers of the bark. Bark cambium, phellogen and, pericambium are also known as cork cambium.

The epidermis of the plant is replaced by cuboidal cells, filled with suberin that is generated in the outer layer by cork cambium. The cells of cork become dead cells when the suberin is saturated in the cork cambium with suberin, and these dead cells further serve as a protective layer that is impermeable or resistant to air and water. It also protects from the incursion of insects, bacteria, and fungi that cause infection, so it acts as a barrier against any damage or pathogen. Still, due to the existence of lenticels, which are pores of barks, causes the gas exchange within the cork. Because of this reason, plant cork is used widely to make stoppers and insulation products. As a result, cork serves as a protective layer of plants, and it contains many layers of cells.

Phelloderm is the cells on the interior side of cork cambium, while the cork cells are the cells that are present at the outside of the cork cambium. Periderm consists of both cork and cork cambium and the cork, which is the outer part of the bark. Each plant varies in its cork thickness. The commercial cork is made by a type of tree called cork oak. Usage of cork is in the production of table matt to prevent tables from hot pans, bung stoppers of wine bottles, insulators, coasters, sealing of lids of the containers, gaskets of engines, floors, fishing rod handles and tennis rackets, etc.

What is Bark?

The bark is the outer layer of woody plants that serves as the protective layer providing the transportation and storage of wooden plants. Bark consists of layers of cells outside the vascular cambium that covers the wood. The Bark can be divided into two layers; the inner layer of bark and outer bark. The inner bark has innermost living tissues of periderm and is alive with some meristematic cells. The outer bark has cork cells that are dead.

Anatomically and functionally, the bark is a complex part of plants as they consist of many layers. Bark has three layers of cork, cork cambium, and secondary phloem. The vascular cambium forms the inner bark consisting of secondary phloem. Cuboidal cells are present in the cork cambium that further divides and produces cork cells. The mature or old stems and trunks have dead tissues in their outer bark outside the periderm; therefore, its outer bark is also called the rhytidome. Cork cambium lifetime is shorter than the vascular cambium.

Wound healing, storage of organic materials and water, translocation, and protection of the inner tissue cells from mechanical damages and infections are the main functions of a bark. Uses of bark include the production of clapboards, resins, wall tile, latex, flavorings, medicines, spices, ropes, and clothes.

The layers of bark of mature stem from outside to inside include the fist layer of ‘bark,’ which consists of further three divisions; ‘pericardium’ that consists of cork (phellem), rhytidome, cork cambium (phellogen), phelloderm and ‘cortex’ and ‘phloem.’ The second layer is ‘Vascular cambium.’ The third is ‘Wood (xylem),’ which is further divided into sapwood (alburnum) and heartwood (duramen). The fourth layer is ‘Pith (medulla).’

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