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nounhandsome 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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nouna bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasmatype of:
Definition that contains quassia
- quassia 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
- picrasma excelsa West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
- quassia 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
- picrasma excelsum West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
- bitterwood West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
- jamaica quassia West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
- quassia amara 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
- bitterwood 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
- jamaica quassia similar to the extract from Quassia amara