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bitterwood

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: bitterwood

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medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits
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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
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West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: bitterwood
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n medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits

Synonyms:
Simarouba glauca, paradise tree
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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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:
Quassia amara, 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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n West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia

Synonyms:
Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum
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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