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quassia

noun

  1. a tropical American shrub or small tree (Quassia amara) having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a fine-grained, yellowish-white wood
  2. the wood of Quassia amara
  3. a drug from the heartwood and bark of various tropical trees of the ailanthus family used especially as a bitter tonic and remedy for roundworms in children and as an insecticide
  4. any plant of the genus Quassia
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