CABBAGE BARK


Meaning of CABBAGE BARK in English

noun

or cabbage-bark tree

Etymology: cabbage (palm) + bark

: an angelim ( Andira inermis ) widely distributed in tropical America and western Africa having a shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark that has been used together with the seeds as a purgative, vermifuge, and narcotic and yielding a hard strong durable wood variable in color and susceptible of a fine polish — called also cabbage tree

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