fever tree

Noun

• African tree supposed to mark healthful regions

• tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish

• 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

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Acacia xanthophloea , blue gum , Eucalyptus globulus , Georgia bark , bitter-bark , Pinckneya pubens