1) the light, brown, tough outer bark of a kind of tree (called the cork-oak) (cork)

2) any of a kind of small animals, such as an ant, fly, beetle, having six legs and no backbone and a body divided into three parts (insect)

3) of a kind that is, or deserves to be, liked (likable)

4) strange; new; of a kind not previously known; a story in prose, long enough to fill one or more volumes, about either imaginary of historical people (novel)