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bitter bark

noun · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Meaning 1

Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:

especially, a quinine bush (Alstonia constricta) of New South Wales and Queensland.

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Meaning 2

Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:

A coast bersama (Bersama tysoniana), of Australia.

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Meaning 3

Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:

A long-leaved bitter bark (Petalostigma triloculare), of Australia.

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Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:

A native quince (Petalostigma quadriloculare), of Australia.

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Meaning 5

Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:

An eastern gondola bush (Tabernaemontana orientalis), of northern Australia and Malesia.

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Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:

A Georgia bark, fever tree (Pinckneya pubens), of southeastern US.

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Meaning 7

Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:

A cascara buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana), found from British Columbia and Idaho to central California.

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Meaning 8

Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:

A paradise tree, any of species Simarouba amara or Simarouba glauca of neotropical trees,

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Meaning 9

Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:

Any of species Sacoglottis gabonensis of trees of Western and Central Africa.

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