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quassia

DEFINITIONS OF: quassia

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

n a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma

Types:
Jamaica quassia
similar to the extract from Quassia amara
Type of:
organic compound
any compound of carbon and another element or a radical
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