BITTER-BARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bitter-bark mean? 

• BITTER-BARK (noun)
  The noun BITTER-BARK has 1 sense:

1. ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever

  Familiarity information: BITTER-BARK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BITTER-BARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bitter-bark; fever tree; Georgia bark; Pinckneya pubens

Hypernyms ("bitter-bark" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("bitter-bark" is a member of...):

genus Pinckneya; Pinckneya (small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America)