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Quassia amara

DEFINITIONS OF: Quassia amara

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n handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark

Synonyms:
bitterwood, quassia
Type of:
bitterwood tree
any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste
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