genus quassia

English Thesaurus

1. tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	rosid dicot genus,
definition	:	a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	bitterwood, quassia, quassia amara,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family simaroubaceae, quassia family, simaroubaceae,
definition	:	chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit (noun.plant)