quassia : Idioms & Phrases
genus quassia
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noun tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal
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jamaica quassia
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noun similar to the extract from Quassia amara
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noun West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
Picrasma excelsum; bitterwood; Picrasma excelsa.
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quassia amara
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noun 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
quassia; bitterwood.
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quassia family
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noun chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit
family Simaroubaceae; Simaroubaceae.
