quassia

Definition of Quassia in English :

Noun

1. quassia

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

2. 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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Quassia

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noun

1.

any tree of the tropical American simaroubaceous genus Quassia, having bitter bark and wood

2.

the bark and wood of Quassia amara and of a related tree, Picrasma excelsa, used in furniture making

3.

a bitter compound extracted from this bark and wood, formerly used as a tonic and anthelmintic, now used in insecticides

Quassia

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noun

1.

any of a genus (Quassia) of shrubs and trees of the quassia family

2.

the wood of either of two tropical trees (Picrasma excela or Quassia amara) of the quassia family, used in making furniture

3.

a bitter drug extracted from this wood, used in insecticides and, formerly, in medicine

adjective

4.

designating a family (Simaroubaceae, order Sapindales) of tropical American dicotyledonous shrubs and trees having alternate pinnate leaves, including ailanthus

Quassia

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n.

1.

a. A tropical American shrub or small tree (Quassia amara) having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a fine-grained, yellowish-white wood.

b. The wood of this plant.

2. A bitter substance obtained from the wood of this plant or related plants in the family Simaroubaceae, used in medicine and formerly as an insecticide.

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