Bitter bark

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:; especially, a quinine bush (Alstonia constricta) of New South Wales and Queensland.

    "The mine man looked about, as if he could envisage no possibility of action among the wiregrass and shrubby bitter barks that surrounded them."

  2. 2
    Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:; A coast bersama (Bersama tysoniana), of Australia.
  3. 3
    Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:; A long-leaved bitter bark (Petalostigma triloculare), of Australia.
  4. 4
    Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:; A native quince (Petalostigma quadriloculare), of Australia.
  5. 5
    Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:; An eastern gondola bush (Tabernaemontana orientalis), of northern Australia and Malesia.
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  1. 6
    Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:; A Georgia bark, fever tree (Pinckneya pubens), of southeastern US.
  2. 7
    Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:; A cascara buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana), found from British Columbia and Idaho to central California.
  3. 8
    Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:; A paradise tree, any of species Simarouba amara or Simarouba glauca of neotropical trees,
  4. 9
    Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:; Any of species Sacoglottis gabonensis of trees of Western and Central Africa.

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"The mine man looked about, as if he could envisage no possibility of action among the wiregrass and shrubby bitter barks that surrounded them."

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