bitter bark

English

Alternative forms

• bitterbark

Noun

bitter bark (plural bitter barks)

1. Any of various trees with bitter bark
   1. especially Alstonia constricta of New South Wales and Queensland. [from 19th c.]
      • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 40:

        The mine man looked about, as if he could envisage no possibility of action among the wiregrass and shrubby bitter barks that surrounded them.

   2. Simarouba amara, a neotropical tree.
   3. Petalostigma triloculare (long-leaved bitter bark), of Australia.
   4. Sacoglottis gabonensis, a tree of Western and Central Africa