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Definition of Physic nut

Physic nut
``A doctor of physik.' --Chaucer. 2. A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine. 3. Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic. 4. A physician. [R.] --Shak. Physic nut (Bot.), a small tropical American euphorbiaceous tree (Jatropha Curcas), and its seeds, which are well flavored, but contain a drastic oil which renders them dangerous if eaten in large quantities.

Meaning of Physic nut from wikipedia

- years ago. Common names in English include physic nut, Barbados nut, poison nut, bubble bush or purging nut. In parts of Africa and areas in Asia such...
- Indian physic Jatropha, a genus of plants commonly known as the physic nut Veronicastrum virgini****, a plant known commonly as Culver's physic Physic garden...
- "physician", and τροφή (trophe), meaning "nutrition", hence the common name physic nut. Another common name is nettlespurge. It contains approximately 170 species...
- is a plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is commonly known as red physic nut, wild castor, wild croton or wild sultan seed.[citation needed] It is...
- Jatropha multifida, called coral plant, coralbush, and physic nut (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of Jatropha native to...
- for the species. This leaf-footed bug is one of the two major pests of physic nut plants in Nicaragua. In Honduras, where the bug is known commonly as chinche...
- gout-stalk, Guatemalan rhubarb, coral-plant, Buddha-belly plant, purging-nut, physic-nut, goutystalk nettlespurge, Australian bottleplant (a geographical misnomer)...
- Manihot esculenta food Euphorbiaceae lmnàa physic nut Jatropha curcas housing Euphorbiaceae lmnàa hncìm physic nut Jatropha curcas cultivated plant, medicinal...
- The rare fruit is a yellow drupe containing one seed. Nestronia, or physic-nut, is described growing in Georgia in Bartram's Travels. Bartram states...
- Asparagus afric**** Climbing asparagus fern Asparagus plumosus Cotton-leaved physic-nut Jatropha gossypifolia Delta arrowhead Sagittaria platyphylla Fireweed...