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Definition of Bitter-bark

1. Noun. Ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bitter-bark

Literary usage of Bitter-bark

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"This small tree has an intensely bitter bark, and a decoction of it is sometimes sold as 'bitters/1' Bitter-Leaf, n. a Tasmanian name for the Native Hop. ..."

2. Outlines of botany by Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1835)
"... has a very bitter bark, which is considered as efficacious as that of cinchona in the cure of intermittent fevers, and in it, or in the bark of a tree ..."

3. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1897)
"Tall tree, of rapid growth, bitter bark, and somewhat 111-scented foliage, ... Tropical American trees, with very bitter bark, alternate abruptly pinnate ..."

4. A Manual of Indian Timbers: An Account of the Structure, Growth by James Sykes Gamble (1881)
"202, is a small tree of Tenasserim and the Andaman Islands, with a bitter bark which, in the Malay Archipelago, is used as a febrifuge. ..."

5. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"Bitter bark, pea-sized fruit. Color, Appearance, or Grain of Wood. ... The bitter bark contains medicinal properties valued in bronchitis and other troubles ..."

6. Swahili Exercises: Compiled for the Universities Mission to Central Africa by Edward Steere (1882)
"The bitter bark did not cure you. The affair is not yet finished. The bitter bark has not as yet cured you. The drop has not yet fallen. ..."

7. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"A. con- stric'ta, bitter bark, a tree of Queensland and New South Wales. ... This tree, a native of India, has a very bitter bark (dita bark), ..."

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