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
English: quassia, bitterwood, Quassia amara
quassiaEnglish
quassia, Quassia amara, bitterwood
Noun
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
English: quassia