bitterwood

Meanings

• 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
• West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
• medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits

Synonyms

• quassia
• Quassia amara
• Jamaica quassia
• Picrasma excelsa
• Picrasma excelsum
• paradise tree
• Simarouba glauca

Scrabble Score: 16

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