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bitterbark

bitterbark is the alternative form of bitter bark.

Meaning of bitter bark

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.

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Forms of bitterbark

pluralbitterbarks

Questions about bitterbark

What is bitterbark the alternative form of?
Bitterbark is the alternative form of bitter bark.

Words near bitterbark in the dictionary

  1. bitter-root
  2. bitter-roots
  3. bitter-sweet
  4. bitterant
  5. bitterants
  6. bitterbark
  7. bitterbarks
  8. bitterberry
  9. bitterbloom
  10. bitterbrush
  11. bitterbrushes

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