QUASSIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does quassia mean?
• QUASSIA (noun)
The noun QUASSIA has 2 senses:
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
Familiarity information: QUASSIA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• QUASSIA (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("quassia" is a kind of...):
organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quassia"):
Jamaica quassia (similar to the extract from Quassia amara)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bitterwood; Quassia amara; quassia
Hypernyms ("quassia" is a kind of...):
bitterwood tree (any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste)
Holonyms ("quassia" is a member of...):
genus Quassia (tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal)
