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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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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒʃ(i)ə/ / /ˈkwasi.ə/ / /ˈkwɑʃə/

noun

Etymology: From the genus name translingual Quassia, named after Surinamese physician and botanist Graman Quassi.

  1. Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers.
  2. The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark.