GENUS QUASSIA

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Meaning:

Tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Quassia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus Quassia" 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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