quassia

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Определение quassia в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

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

Связанные Термины

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

Расстановка переносов

quas·sia

Турецкое произношение

kwäşiı

Произношение

/ˈkwäsʜēə/ /ˈkwɑːʃiːə/