| NOUN | plant | genus Quassia | tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers |
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| 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 |
| Members | quassia, bitterwood, Quassia amara | handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood |
| Broader | rosid dicot genus | A genus of dicotyledonous plants |
| Spanish | genus quassia | |
| Catalan | genus quassia | |
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