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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The common name of several timber-trees of tropical America belonging to the genus Andira (which see). The angelin-tree of Jamaica, furnishing worm-bark, is A. inermis.

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Examples

  • Andira retusa HBK and A. inermis yield the alkaloids berberine and angelin.

    Chapter 35 1990

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    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

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