cascarilla : Idioms & Phrases

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cascarilla bark

  • noun aromatic bark of cascarilla; used as a tonic and for making incense
    eleuthera bark; sweetwood bark.
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Cascarilla bark (∨ Cascarila

  • ) (Med.), the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.
Webster 1913