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Definition of quassia in English English dictionary
- 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
- 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
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quas·siaTurkish pronunciation
kwäşiıPronunciation
/ˈkwäsʜēə/ /ˈkwɑːʃiːə/
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