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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)