| NOUN | substance | quassia | a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge |
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| plant | quassia, bitterwood, Quassia amara | handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood |
| Sounds | kwaa'shiyah | |
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| Rhymes | Abyssinia ... zinnia: 217 rhymes with iyah... | |
| Meaning | A bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera ... / genera Quassia and Picrasma. | |
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| Narrower | Jamaica quassia | Similar to the extract from Quassia amara |
| Broader | organic compound | Any compound of carbon and another element or a radical |
| Meaning | 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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| Synonyms | bitterwood, Quassia amara | |
| Member of | genus Quassia | Tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers |
| Broader | bitterwood tree | Any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste |
| Spanish | quassia | |
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