noun
small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities
• Syn: ↑physic nut
• Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Jatropha, ↑genus Jatropha
Useful english dictionary. 2012.