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Quassia Moderate

Quassia has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

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

3

Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
organic compound bitterwood tree
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
Jamaica quassia
Rhyming Words
asia hsia tsia ssia kasia mysia ousia dasia zosia ossia misia basia resia opsia kassia cassia bassia idesia clusia amusia
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