bitterwood

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bitterwood Definition

• (n) 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
• (n) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
• (n) medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits

bitterwood Synonyms

• bitterwood
• Jamaica quassia
• paradise tree
• Picrasma excelsa
• Picrasma excelsum
• quassia
• Quassia amara
• Simarouba glauca