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(noun) 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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Synonyms: Quassia amara, bitterwood |
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Related Words: bitterwood tree |
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(noun) a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood an bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma |
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Related Words: Jamaica quassia, chemical compound, compound |
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