cabbage-bark tree

cabbage-bark tree
noun
tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
Hypernyms: ↑angelim, ↑andelmin
Member Holonyms: ↑Andira, ↑genus Andira

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noun

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