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English noun: quassia | |||
| 1. | quassia (substance) 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | organic compound | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Jamaica quassia | ||
| 2. | quassia (plant) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | bitterwood, Quassia amara | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bitterwood tree | ||
| Member meronym | genus Quassia | ||
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