bitterwood
Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
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- definition 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
- definition West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
- definition 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