'Barbados nuts' definitions:
Definition of 'Barbados nuts'
From: GCIDE
- Barbados \Bar*ba"dos\ or Barbadoes \Bar*ba"does\, n. A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry.
- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates.
- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut. [1913 Webster]