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Physic nut

noun
1.
Small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities.  Synonym: Jatropha curcus.





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... JATROPHA CURCAS.—The physic nut tree of tropical America. This plant contains a milky, acrid, glutinous juice, which forms a permanent stain when dropped on linen, and which might form a good marking ink. Burning oil is expressed from the seeds in the Philippine Islands; ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders


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