SASSY BARK
\sˈasi bˈɑːk], \sˈasi bˈɑːk], \s_ˈa_s_i b_ˈɑː_k]\
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The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophlaeum Guineense, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; - called also mancona bark.
By Oddity Software
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The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophlaeum Guineense, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; - called also mancona bark.
By Noah Webster.
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A poisonous bark of a large tree-Genus, Erythrophleum, E. Judicia'le; Nat. Ord. Fabaceae; Red water tree of Sierra Leone- growing in Western and Central Africa, used in an ordeal to which persons, suspected of witchcraft, secret murder, and other crimes, are subjected, to test their innocence or guilt. Hence it is called, in Congo, ordeal bark, and in Ashantee and Liberia, doom bark.
By Robley Dunglison
