释义 |
cabbage bark noun or cabbage-bark tree Etymology: cabbage (palm) + bark : an angelim (Andira inermis) widely distributed in tropical America and western Africa having a shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark that has been used together with the seeds as a purgative, vermifuge, and narcotic and yielding a hard strong durable wood variable in color and susceptible of a fine polish — called also cabbage tree |