(n) tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic, Syn. cabbage tree, Andira inermis, cabbage-bark tree
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‖a. [ L. inermis, inermus; pref. in- not + arma arms: cf. F. inerme. ] (Bot.) Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]