jamaica quassia
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1. West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | bitterwood tree, |
| definition | : | any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus picrasma, picrasma, |
| definition | : | small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia (noun.plant) |
| substance holonym | : | jamaica quassia, |
| definition | : | similar to the extract from Quassia amara (noun.plant) |
2. similar to the extract from Quassia amara (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | quassia, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.substance) |
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