WordNet
cabbage bark
n : tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic [syn: cabbage-bark tree, cabbage tree, Andira inermis]
Usage examples of "cabbage bark".
Inermis, or Cabbage Tree of South America and Senegambia, has a narcotic, anthelmintic bark, known as Bastard Cabbage Bark or Worm Bark.