bitter aloes

1. 1.

   a purgative made from the leaves of aloe

   Synonymsaloes

   Broaderpurgative

Questions about bitter aloes

What does bitter aloes mean?

bitter aloes means "a purgative made from the leaves of aloe".

What is another word for bitter aloes?

Close synonyms include aloes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bitter aloes a common word?

bitter aloes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.