NOUN | plant | cabbage-bark tree, cabbage bark, cabbage tree, Andira inermis | tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood |
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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. | |
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Synonyms | cabbage bark, cabbage tree, Andira inermis | |
Member of | Andira, genus Andira | small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa |
Broader | angelim, andelmin | Any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira |
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