bitter bark

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Noun

bitter bark (plural bitter barks)

  1. Any of various trees with bitter bark
    1. especially Alstonia constricta of New South Wales and Queensland. [from 19th c.]
      • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 40:
        The mine man looked about, as if he could envisage no possibility of action among the wiregrass and shrubby bitter barks that surrounded them.
    2. Simarouba amara, a neotropical tree.
    3. Petalostigma triloculare (long-leaved bitter bark), of Australia.
    4. Sacoglottis gabonensis, a tree of Western and Central Africa
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