winter's bark
- noun
- /ˈwɪntərz bɑrk/
- Specialized
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Drimys winteri
- Sailors once relied on winter's bark as a source of vitamin C during long voyages.
Examples
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The aromatic winter's bark was often used in traditional medicine in South America.
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The winter's bark tree is native to South America.
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Botanists studied winter's bark for its potential culinary and medicinal uses.
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Many herbalists recommend winter's bark for its health benefits.
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Botanists studied winter's bark for its potential culinary and medicinal uses.
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Sailors once relied on winter's bark as a source of vitamin C during long voyages.
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The aromatic winter's bark was often used in traditional medicine in South America.
Synonyms
A South American evergreen tree with fragrant leaves, bark used as medicine, and soft light wood
A tree from South America with soft light wood and bark used as medicine
Surface Forms
Morphology
winter's + bark
This is a lexicalized plant name whose meaning (a specific South American evergreen and aromatic medicinal/spice bark) cannot be derived from the literal parts. Knowing 'winter' and 'bark' would at best suggest a seasonal or tree-related notion, but would not allow a B1 learner to predict the species identity or its culinary/medicinal uses; plant names are often arbitrary across languages, making this opaque.
Etymology
Winter's bark can also name the tree itself, because people called the evergreen by its useful bark that helped them in cold sea journeys. So the name now refers to the South American 'tree' whose bark was used as a warming 'remedy' and 'spice'.
