noun
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
• Syn: ↑quassia, ↑bitterwood
• Hypernyms: ↑bitterwood tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Quassia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.