sassy bark

English

Noun

sassy bark (uncountable)

1. The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophleum suaveolens), used by the natives as an ordeal poison in a process called sassywood, and also medicinally.

Synonyms

• Mancona bark

Related terms

• sassy tree

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sassy bark”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)