| quassia |
| quassia |
| genus quassia | (n) tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal |
| jamaica quassia | (n) similar to the extract from Quassia amara |
| jamaica quassia | (n) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia, Syn. Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum, bitterwood |
| quassia | (n) 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 |
| quassia | (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, Syn. Quassia amara, bitterwood |
| simaroubaceae | (n) chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit, Syn. family Simaroubaceae, quassia family |
| Quassia | n. [ NL. From the name of a negro, Quassy, or Quash, who prescribed this article as a specific. ] The wood of several tropical American trees of the order |
