An early-flowering, low-growing woodland shrub, Daphne mezereum (family Thymelaeaceae), native to Europe and Asia and widely cultivated as a garden…

Medicine. The bark of various trees used medicinally; absol. Peruvian bark. Obsolete (except as Latin.)

the medicinal bark of species of Cinchona, Peruvian bark (introduced into Europe from the Jesuit Missions in South America); also applied to the…

Bark derived from the tropical Asian tree Holarrhena pubescens (family Apocynaceae), which contains the alkaloid conessine and has been used…

the North American red elm, Ulmus fulva, or the inner bark of this, used medicinally; also, a Californian shrub, Fremontia californica, with similar…

the inner bark of Canella alba; see canella, n. 2.

A mezereon, spec. Daphne mezereum; (also) a medicinal preparation of Daphne mezereum (cf. mezereon, n. 2).

The inner bark of this tree, also called white cinnamon; used in medicine, and in the West Indies as a condiment. Also canella bark n.

(more fully royal yellow bark) a variety of cinchona bark; esp. calisaya bark from the Peruvian tree, Cinchona calisaya.

The medicinal bark of species of Cinchona, Peruvian bark; also the drug prepared from it.

More fully rohun bark: the dried bark of the rohuna tree, used medicinally as a febrifuge and general tonic, esp. as a substitute for cinchona. Also…

In full false Winter's bark. The aromatic bark of the wild cinnamon tree, Canella winterana (family Canellaceae), which is used medicinally, as a…

the most valuable sort of Peruvian bark, obtained from Cinchona calisaya.

Pharmacology. More fully mezereon bark. The dried bark of Daphne mezereum, esp. of its root, used chiefly in ointments for the treatment of chronic…

the bark of species of Andira, or that of Cinchona magnifolia, used in medicine.

‘A synonym of true Angustura bark’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).

In the names of plants occurring in Honduras or products obtained from them. the dried bark of the South American tree Picramnia antidesma (family Pic…