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quassia
bitterwood
Quassia amara
Definition: 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
bitterwood
Picrasma excelsa
Picrasma excelsum
Definition: West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
paradise tree
bitterwood
Simarouba glauca
Definition: 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
Definition: quassia (Quassia amara)