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Quassia
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quassia
[n] - a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge 2. [n] - handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood
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Quassia
Quas'si·a noun [ New Latin From the name of a negro, Quassy , or Quash , who prescribed this article as a specific.] The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeæ , as Quassia amara , Picræna excels...
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quassia
The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer. ... Origin: NL. From the name of a negro, Quassy, or Quash, who prescrib...
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quassia
noun 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
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quassia
noun 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
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Quassia
• (n.) The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
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quassia
(from the article `Simaroubaceae`) ...the male flowers release a disagreeable odour. Several varieties have colourful, twisted fruits and coloured leafstalks. Bark of species of the ...
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Quassia
(from the article `Sapindales`) ...tropical in distribution. Picramnia, shrubs and small trees found from Mexico and the West Indies to tropical South America, has about 55 species. ...
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Quassia
Quassia (ə or ə) is a flora genus in the family Simaroubaceae. Its size is disputed; some botanists treat it as consisting of only one species, Quassia amara from tropical South America, while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a pantropical genus containing up to 40 species of trees an...
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quassia
quassia (kwosh'u) , name for several tropical trees and for a bitter extract from their bark. The extract containing complex terpenoid compounds called quassinoids is used medicinally as a bitter tonic and a pinworm remedy; it is also used in insecticides, e.g., in flypaper and against aphids. S...
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Quassia
Quassia is a genus of tropical American trees named after a renowned black man named Quassi who used the bark of the tree as a remedy for fever, belonging to the family Simarubeae. There is only one species, Quassia amara, the Jamaica Quassia also known as bitter wood or bitter ash, which grows to a...
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quassia
Type: Term Pronunciation: kwah′shē-ă Definitions: 1. Bitterwood, the heartwood of Picrasma excelsa (Picraena excelsa), known as Jamaica quassia, or of Quassia amara (family Simaroubaceae), known as Surinam quassia; a bitter tonic; the infusion has been administered by enema in the tr...
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quassia
Any of a group of tropical American trees with bitter bark and wood. The heartwood of Q. amara is a source of quassiin, an infusion of which was formerly used as a tonic; it is now used in insecticides. (Genus Quassia, family Simaroubaceae.) The quassia family includes the Asian ailant...
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quassia
1) Organic compound
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