Noun: kurchi
- Tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea
"Traditional healers prescribed kurchi bark for digestive ailments";
- ivory tree, conessi, kurchee, Holarrhena pubescens, Holarrhena antidysenterica
Derived forms: kurchis
Type of: tree
Part of: genus Holarrhena, Holarrhena
Encyclopedia: Kurchi