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CABBAGE BARK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
Synonyms:
Andira inermis; cabbage-bark tree; cabbage bark; cabbage tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cabbage bark" is a kind of...):
andelmin; angelim (any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira)
Holonyms ("cabbage bark" is a member of...):
Andira; genus Andira (small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa)
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