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bitter bark

bitter bark noun: a quinine bush (Alstonia constricta) of New South Wales and Queensland.

Noun

bitter bark (plural bitter barks)

  1. A quinine bush (Alstonia constricta) of New South Wales and Queensland.
    • The mine man looked about, as if he could envisage no possibility of action among the wiregrass and shrubby bitter barks that surrounded them.2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 40
  2. A coast bersama (Bersama tysoniana), of Australia.
  3. A long-leaved bitter bark (Petalostigma triloculare), of Australia.
  4. A native quince (Petalostigma quadriloculare), of Australia.
  5. An eastern gondola bush (Tabernaemontana orientalis), of northern Australia and Malesia.
  6. A Georgia bark, fever tree (Pinckneya pubens), of southeastern US.
  7. A cascara buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana), found from British Columbia and Idaho to central California.
  8. A paradise tree, any member of the species Simarouba amara or Simarouba glauca of neotropical trees,
  9. Any member of the species Sacoglottis gabonensis of trees of Western and Central Africa.

Forms of bitter bark

pluralbitter barks
alternative formbitterbark
alternative formbitter-bark

Questions about bitter bark

What does bitter bark mean?
Bitter bark means a quinine bush (Alstonia constricta) of New South Wales and Queensland.
What part of speech is bitter bark?
Bitter bark is a noun.
What is the plural of bitter bark?
The plural of bitter bark is bitter barks.

Words near bitter bark in the dictionary

  1. bitter
  2. bitter almond
  3. bitter almonds
  4. bitter apple
  5. bitter apples
  6. bitter bark
  7. bitter barks
  8. bitter bean
  9. bitter beans
  10. bitter bolete
  11. bitter boletes

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