bitter bark

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Noun

bitter bark (plural bitter barks)

  1. Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:
    1. especially, a quinine bush (Alstonia constricta) of New South Wales and Queensland. [from 19th c.]
      • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 40:
        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. A coast bersama (Bersama tysoniana), of Australia.
    3. A long-leaved bitter bark (Petalostigma triloculare), of Australia.
    4. A native quince (Petalostigma quadriloculare), of Australia.
    5. An eastern gondola bush (Tabernaemontana orientalis), of northern Australia and Malesia.
    6. A Georgia bark, fever tree (Pinckneya pubens), of southeastern US.
    7. A cascara buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana), found from British Columbia and Idaho to central California.
    8. A paradise tree, any of species Simarouba amara or Simarouba glauca of neotropical trees,
    9. Any of species Sacoglottis gabonensis of trees of Western and Central Africa.

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