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Definition of Ordeal tree
1. Noun. Evergreen shrub or tree of South Africa.
Group relationships: Acocanthera, Acokanthera, Genus Acocanthera, Genus Acokanthera
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordeal Tree
Literary usage of Ordeal tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta by George King (1895)
"If, on the other hand, he survived, the fact was accepted as proof positive of
his innocence, and he was forthwith acquitted. Near the ordeal tree ..."
2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1857)
"467, states that "the ordeal tree noticed in Professor Smith's journal under the
name of cassa, and in Captain Tuckey's narrative erroneously called a ..."
3. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"The roots of a species of Strychnos, used as an ordeal by tho natives of Western
Africa. Ordeal-tree. ..."
4. The Vegetable World: Being a History of Plants, with Their Botanical by Louis Figuier (1869)
"... is an immense tree of Guinea, growing a hundred feet high, called the Ordeal-tree,
the juice being used by the natives as an ordeal of guilt ..."
5. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"Ore/lis latí/olía. ORDEAL ROOT. The root of a species of Strychnos, used In
Western Africa by | the natives. ordeal tree. ..."
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