sassy bark

sassy bark (uncountable)

1. The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophleum suaveolens), known as the ordeal tree. It was known to be used as a poison in a process called sassywood, and also medicinally.

• Mancona bark

• sassy tree

• “sassy bark”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.