English noun: Quassia amara | |||
1. | Quassia amara (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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bitterwood tree | ||
Member meronym | genus Quassia | ||