单词 | redwater tree |
释义 | > as lemmasredwater tree redwater tree n. the tropical African tree Erythrophleum suaveolens (family Leguminosae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae) (cf. sense 3); also called sassy tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding poison > sassy-tree gris-gris1734 redwater tree1818 sassy tree1851 1818 Monthly Rev. 86 300 Secondly, Cæsalpineæ, of which nineteen species are in the herbarium: one is the poisonous Red Water-tree, Erythrophleum. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 338 Mancone of the Portuguese, Bourane, Red-water Tree, Ordeal Bark, &c. 1998 Jrnl. Ethnopharmacol. 63 20/1 The judicial use of the red water tree was not always free from manipulation. < as lemmas |
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