| 单词 | bitter bark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbitter bark bitter bark n. a popular name for any of various shrubs and small trees (see quots.). Π 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 231/1 Pinckneya pubens, bitter-bark-tree, Fever-tree of Georgia. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 198 Petalostigma quadriloculare, F.v.M...Bitter bark... The bark contains a very powerful bitter, said to have the same properties as cinchona. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 31/2 Bitter-bark, an Australian tree, Petalostigma quadriloculare,..N.O. Euphorbiaceæ... The name is also applied to Tabernæmontana orientalis..N.O. Apocyneæ, and to Alstonia constricta..N.O. Apocynaceæ. 1955 Times 26 May 9/2 Alstonia constricta, or ‘bitter bark’, a new source of supply of the drug known as ‘reserpine’... Supplies have also been found in the roots of ‘bitter barks’ grown in India. < as lemmas |
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