PHYSIC NUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physic nut mean? 

• PHYSIC NUT (noun)
  The noun PHYSIC NUT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PHYSIC NUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSIC NUT (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Jatropha curcus; physic nut

Hypernyms ("physic nut" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Holonyms ("physic nut" is a member of...):

genus Jatropha; Jatropha (a mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae)