CABBAGE-BARK TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cabbage-bark tree mean? 

• CABBAGE-BARK TREE (noun)
  The noun CABBAGE-BARK TREE 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 TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CABBAGE-BARK TREE (noun)

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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 tree" is a kind of...):

andelmin; angelim (any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira)

Holonyms ("cabbage-bark tree" is a member of...):

Andira; genus Andira (small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa)