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Definition of Physic nut

1. Noun. Small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Physic Nut

Literary usage of Physic nut

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"The Oil of the Jatropha Curcas, or physic nut, as a Purgative, and flie Oil •and Leaves as a Counter-irritant.—Various physicians have at different times ..."

2. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"Jatropha curcas, the physic nut. Its juice or oil boiled with oxide of iron dyes black. Jatropha glandulifera grows wild throughout India, and its leaves ..."

3. The Nut Culturist: A Treatise on the Propagation, Planting and Cultivation by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1896)
"physic nut.—In "Bartram's Travels," he refers to a seed or nut of a plant ... To what kind of fruit Bartram referred under the name of "physic nut," is not ..."

4. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1813)
"Fiddle-leaved Physic-nut. Na(. of the Island of Cuba. ... Angular-leaved Physic-nut, Nat. of South America. Cult. 1731, by Mr. Ph. Miller. Mill. diet. ed. ..."

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