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fever tree   (TTS Sound)

The noun fever tree has 4 senses

• fever tree -- (any of several trees having leaves or bark used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever)


• fever tree, Georgia bark, bitter-bark, Pinckneya pubens -- (ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever)


• blue gum, fever tree, Eucalyptus globulus -- (tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish)


• fever tree, Acacia xanthophloea -- (African tree supposed to mark healthful regions)