bitter bark
English
Alternative forms
- bitterbark
Noun
bitter bark (plural bitter barks)
- Any of various trees with bitter bark
- especially Alstonia constricta of New South Wales and Queensland. [from 19th c.]
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin 2003, p. 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.
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin 2003, p. 40:
- Simarouba amara, a neotropical tree.
- Petalostigma triloculare (long-leaved bitter bark), of Australia.
- Sacoglottis gabonensis, a tree of Western and Central Africa
- especially Alstonia constricta of New South Wales and Queensland. [from 19th c.]