| 单词 | sasswood tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmassasswood tree sasswood tree n. any of several tropical West African leguminous trees of the genus Erythrophleum having bark used as an ordeal poison, esp. E. suaveolens and E. ivorense.Also called sassy tree.Cf. ordeal tree n. at ordeal n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1839 Afr. Repository & Colonial Jrnl. June 181 Four pieces of the Sasswood tree..were then prepared for him. 1980 Paideuma 26 50 Members of the ‘house of sasswood’ ordeal lodge administered the poison of the sasswood tree. 2012 R. H. M. G. Lemmens et al. Plant Resources Trop. Afr. VII. ii. 337/1 Vernacular names [of Erythrophleum ivorense] Ordeal tree, sasswood tree. < as lemmas |
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