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.
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Words linked to "Quassia amara" : quassia, genus Quassia, bitterwood tree, bitterwood |
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