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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


Synonymsbitterwood, quassia


Broader (hypernym)bitterwood tree


Member meronymgenus Quassia









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