bitter bark
noun9 senses
- 1especially, a quinine bush (Alstonia constricta) of New…
- 2A coast bersama (Bersama tysoniana), of Australia.
- 3A long-leaved bitter bark (Petalostigma triloculare), of…
- 4A native quince (Petalostigma quadriloculare), of Australia.
- 5An eastern gondola bush (Tabernaemontana orientalis), of…
- 6A Georgia bark, fever tree (Pinckneya pubens), of…
- 7A cascara buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana), found from…
- 8A paradise tree, any of species Simarouba amara or…
- 9Any of species Sacoglottis gabonensis of trees of…
› Any of various trees with bitter bark, some…
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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.2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 40:
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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,
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Any of species Sacoglottis gabonensis of trees of Western and Central Africa.