1) Bitterwood 2) Organic compound
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1) Bitterwood 2) Unsavoriness
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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 and shrubs. The genus was named after a former slave...
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tropical tree whose bark is used to make a bitter medicinal product
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• (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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(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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(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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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 prescribed this article as a specific. ... Source: Webster...
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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 excelsa , and
Simaruba amara . It is intense...
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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 treatment of threadworms.
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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 around 25 metres tall with an erect stem one metre ...
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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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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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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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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 ailanthus (
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a shrub or small tree, Quassia amara, of tropical America, having pinnate leaves, showy red flowers, and wood with a bitter taste. Cf. · any of several other trees having bitter-tasting wood. · Also calleda prepared form of the heartwood of any of these trees, used as an insecticide and in medicine as a tonic to dispel intestinal worms...
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