quassia
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1. 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)
| 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 quassia, |
| definition | : | tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal (noun.plant) |
2. 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)
| hypernym | : | organic compound, |
| definition | : | any compound of carbon and another element or a radical (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | jamaica quassia, |
| definition | : | similar to the extract from Quassia amara (noun.plant) |
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