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beadwood noun The Chinaberry tree (Melia azedarach), the bark of which is used in making a poultice, a medicinal tea, and a dye.

1937 Hall Coll (Catons Grove TN) [Home-made clothes were] colored with bark. Take bark [of one of several trees] and bile it: beadwood, chestnut, oak, hickory and walnut. Ibid. (Upper Cosby Creek TN) To cure blood poison, use catnip and beadwood bark biled together and made into a poultice for blood pizen. 1992 Bush Dorie 114 Just to be sure she was right, she gave me a cup of beadwood tea to drink. 1998 Montgomery Coll = the bark was used to make beadwood tea, which was used by women for nerves and the cramping, aching feeling present at childbirth (Bush).