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quassia

/ quassia /

noun

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 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

Type of:

bitterwood tree

Has parts:

genus Quassia

noun Sense 2

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

Type of:

organic compound

Kinds of:

Jamaica quassia

Semantic Complexity

100%

Sense Count

2

Total Synonyms

0

Total Relationships

4

Times Searched

3

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