acıağaç (kuvasya ağacı)tan yapılan acı bir ilaç

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Definition of acıağaç (kuvasya ağacı)tan yapılan acı bir ilaç in Turkish English dictionary

(Tıp) quassia

The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark

It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer

Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers

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

Hyphenation

a·cı·a·ğaç (ku·vas·ya a·ğa·cı)·tan ya·pı·lan a·cı bir i·laç