physic nut

1. 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

   SynonymsJatropha curcus

   Broaderangiospermous tree

   Part ofJatropha

Questions about physic nut

What does physic nut mean?

physic nut means "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".

What is another word for physic nut?

Close synonyms include Jatropha curcus. 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 physic nut a common word?

physic nut 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.