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BITTERWOOD TREE

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Meaning:

Any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bitterwood tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bitterwood tree"):

marupa; Simarouba amara (tree of the Amazon valley yielding a light brittle timber locally regarded as resistant to insect attack)

bitterwood; paradise tree; Simarouba glauca (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)

bitterwood; Jamaica quassia; Picrasma excelsa; Picrasma excelsum (West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia)

bitterwood; quassia; Quassia amara (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)

Holonyms ("bitterwood tree" is a member of...):

family Simaroubaceae; quassia family; Simaroubaceae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit)

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