Quassia Meaning

There are 2 meaning(s) for word Quassia

Meaning 1 : 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

    Synonyms : bitterwood,  quassia amara
Meaning 2 : 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


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