Meaning | Tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal. |
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Member of | Simaroubaceae, family Simaroubaceae, quassia family | chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit |
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Members | quassia, bitterwood, Quassia amara | handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood |
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Broader | rosid dicot genus | A genus of dicotyledonous plants |
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Spanish | genus quassia |
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Catalan | genus quassia |
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