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noun
Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bitterwood, Quassia amara
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Broader terms: bitterwood tree
noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: organic compound
Narrower terms: Jamaica quassia
History
From the genus name translingual Quassia, named after Surinamese physician and botanist Graman Quassi.
Across languages
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