Noun: physic nut fi-zik nút
- 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
"Local craftsmen used the physic nut tree for its purple dye";
- Jatropha curcus
Derived forms: physic nuts
Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree
Part of: genus Jatropha, Jatropha
Encyclopedia: Physic nut