QUASSIA AMARA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Quassia amara mean? 

• QUASSIA AMARA (noun)
  The noun QUASSIA AMARA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: QUASSIA AMARA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUASSIA AMARA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bitterwood; quassia; Quassia amara

Hypernyms ("Quassia amara" is a kind of...):

bitterwood tree (any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste)

Holonyms ("Quassia amara" is a member of...):

genus Quassia (tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal)