ANDIRA INERMIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic

Synonyms:

Andira inermis; cabbage-bark tree; cabbage bark; cabbage tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Andira inermis" is a kind of...):

andelmin; angelim (any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira)

Holonyms ("Andira inermis" is a member of...):

Andira; genus Andira (small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa)

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