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noun

an ornamental, tropical American tree, Jatropha curcas, of the spurge family, having ivylike leaves, small, yellow or greenish-yellow flowers, and olive-shaped fruit yielding a purgative, poisonous oil.

the fruit itself.

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Also called Barbados nut, purging nut.

Origin of physic nut

First recorded in 1775–85

Words nearby physic nut

physician, Physician, heal thyself, physician's assistant, physicianship, physicist, physic nut, physicochemical, physics, physics model, physio-, physiocrat

How to use physic nut in a sentence

Beech-Nut is still in existence, and is the third largest baby food manufacturer in the United States.
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White King Soap sponsored the show on the West Coast, and Beech-Nut Gum in the East.
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The Donbass region is a harder nut to crack—the Ukrainians are determined to keep it.
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During the first 32 minutes of Left Behind, the message is this: Christians are nut jobs.
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Bob McDonnell went from GOP family-values godsend to blaming everything on his ‘nut bag’ wife.
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This was a hard nut to crack, if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed from Angel's by a word.
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It is prepared from the nut of the areca palm, one of the most beautiful trees in the world.
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For each guest there was a cocoa-nut shell, half-filled with miti, a sourish beverage extracted from the cocoa-palm.
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We had each of us a fresh cocoa-nut with a hole bored in it, containing at least a pint of clear, sweet-tasting water.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
It is about the size of a nut, with a brown verrucous outside; the edible part is white and tender, and the kernel black.
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