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