quassia

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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
• Hypernyms:
organic compound
• Hyponyms:
Jamaica quassia
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
• Syn:
bitterwood, Quassia amara
• Hypernyms:
bitterwood tree
• Member Holonyms:
genus Quassia

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  bitterwood, Quassia amara