quassia

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The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark
Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers
It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer
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
The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeæ, as Quassia amara, Picræna excelsa, and Simaruba amara
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
genus quassia
tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal
jamaica quassia
West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia similar to the extract from Quassia amara
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