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CABBAGE BARK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cabbage bark mean?
• CABBAGE BARK (noun)
The noun CABBAGE BARK has 1 sense:
1. tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
Familiarity information: CABBAGE BARK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Andira inermis; cabbage-bark tree; cabbage bark; cabbage tree
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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