Quassia - Definition
quassia
n 1: a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and
vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the
genera Quassia and Picrasma
2: 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, Quassia amara]