genus quassia

Noun
  1. Tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers;
    Bark is medicinal (synset 112739567)
    is a type of: rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
    member holonym: bitterwood, quassia, quassia amara - 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
    belongs to: family simaroubaceae, quassia family, simaroubaceae - chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit

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