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Definition of Dita bark
1. Noun. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally.
Group relationships: Alstonia, Genus Alstonia
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dita Bark
Literary usage of Dita bark
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Microscopical diagnosis by Charles Henry Stowell, Louisa Reed Stowell (1882)
"Cross Section of dita bark. Three times its Natural Size. ... In the Philippines
and to some extent in the United States, it is known as dita bark. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1879)
"Gruppe, of Manilla, is generally named as the discoverer of the active principle
of dita-bark (see Proceedings, 1874, p. 273); but the principle described ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"... by passing С,Н,-С,Н,Вг, over rod-hot lime (Radziszewski, Ber. 6, 494), has
been shown by Erlenmeyer (Annalen, 372, 249-251) to be stilbene. dita bark. ..."
4. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"Alstonia scholaris (dita bark), is found throughout tropical Eastern Asia and
... dita bark is about £ inch thick, and is found in market in irregular sizes ..."
5. Organic materia medica: Including the Standard Remedies of the Leading by Parke, Davis & Company, Davis & Company Parke (1888)
"In India dita bark is regarded as a valuable anti-periodic and tonic. It has even
been pronounced a ... Fluid Extract dita bark.—Miscible with water. ..."
6. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"J. Jobst and A. Hesse, who have still more recently conducted a very thorough
chemical investigation of dita bark, have succeeded in isolating an alkaloid, ..."
7. Materia medica of India and their therapeutics by Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory (1903)
"The leaves and bark, " dita bark." Vernacular.—Burm.—Lik-htuk. Can. ... Dita—bark,
in flat pieces or irregular fragments of from 2 to 4 inches long, ..."
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