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Noun: quassia kwóshu- 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
- 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
- bitterwood, Quassia amara
Derived forms: quassias Type of: bitterwood tree, organic compound Part of: genus Quassia Encyclopedia: Quassia |