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Noun: cabbage bark  ka-bij baa(r)k
  1. Tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
    "The cabbage bark tree was historically used in traditional medicine despite its toxicity";
    - cabbage-bark tree, cabbage tree, Andira inermis

Derived forms: cabbage barks

Type of: andelmin, angelim

Part of: Andira, genus Andira

Encyclopedia: Cabbage bark