bitterwood
1. 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: quassia, Quassia amara • Hypernyms: bitterwood tree • Member Holonyms: genus Quassia 2. West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia • Syn: Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum • Hypernyms: bitterwood tree • Member Holonyms: Picrasma, genus Picrasma • Substance Meronyms: Jamaica quassia 3. 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 • Syn: paradise tree, Simarouba glauca • Hypernyms: bitterwood tree • Member Holonyms: Simarouba, genus Simarouba
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