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Definition of Cabbage-bark tree
1. Noun. Tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic.
Exact synonyms: Andira Inermis, Cabbage Bark, Cabbage Tree
Group relationships: Andira, Genus Andira
Generic synonyms: Andelmin, Angelim
Group relationships: Andira, Genus Andira
Generic synonyms: Andelmin, Angelim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabbage-bark Tree
Literary usage of Cabbage-bark tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"... from the ramparts of besieged fortresses; and, as it burned under water, it
sometimes caused the destruction of whole fleets. The CABBAGE-BARK Tree ..."
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