noun
tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
• Syn: ↑cabbage-bark tree, ↑cabbage tree, ↑Andira inermis
• Member Holonyms: ↑Andira, ↑genus Andira
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noun or cabbage-bark treeEtymology: cabbage (palm) + bark
: an angelim (Andira inermis) widely distributed in tropical America and western Africa having a shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark that has been used together with the seeds as a purgative, vermifuge, and narcotic and yielding a hard strong durable wood variable in color and susceptible of a fine polish — called also cabbage tree
Useful english dictionary. 2012.