bitterwood

Noun
  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 (synset 112739755)
    is a type of: bitterwood tree - any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste
    belongs to: genus quassia - tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal
    same as: quassia, quassia amara
  2. West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia (synset 112739243)
    is a type of: bitterwood tree - any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste
    belongs to: genus picrasma, picrasma - small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia
    substance holonym: jamaica quassia - similar to the extract from Quassia amara
    same as: jamaica quassia, picrasma excelsa, picrasma excelsum
  3. 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 (synset 112737354)
    is a type of: bitterwood tree - any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste
    belongs to: genus simarouba, simarouba - type genus of Simaroubaceae; tropical American trees and shrubs having a pale soft wood and bitter bark
    same as: paradise tree, simarouba glauca

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