ivory tree

Questions about ivory tree

What does ivory tree mean?

ivory tree means "tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea".

What is another word for ivory tree?

Close synonyms include conessi, kurchi, kurchee, Holarrhena pubescens, Holarrhena antidysenterica. 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 ivory tree a common word?

ivory tree 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.