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quassia quassia definition

quassia


 
  Grep  of  noun  quassia 
  genus  quassia 
  jamaica  quassia 
  quassia 
  quassia  amara 
  quassia  family 
 
  Overview  of  noun  quassia 
 
  The  noun  quassia  has  2  senses  (no  senses  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  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.  quassia,  bitterwood,  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) 
 
  Overview  of  noun  quassia 
 
  The  noun  quassia  has  2  senses  (no  senses  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  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.  quassia,  bitterwood,  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) 



quassia definition