QUASSIA AMARA

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bitterwood; quassia; Quassia amara

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

bitterwood tree (any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste)

Holonyms ("Quassia amara" is a member of...):

genus Quassia (tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal)

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