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Webster 1913 Edition
Cascarilla
Casˊca-ril′la
,Noun.
[Sp., small thin bark, Peruvian bark, dim. of
cáscara
bark.] (Bot.)
A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (
Croton Eleutheria
); also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark
(or Cascarilla
(Med.)
, the bark of
Croton Eleutheria
. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.