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A bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge
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quassia
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n. 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 handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained ...
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n. 1 Any of several tropic trees, of the genus (taxlink Quassia genus noshow=1), having scarlet flowers. 2 The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark.
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Quassia \Quas"si*a\, n. [NL. From the name of a negro, Quassy, or Quash, who prescribed this article as a specific.] The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarube[ae] , as Quassia amara , Picr[ae]na excelsa , and Simaruba amara . It ...
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Quassia ( or ) is a flora genus in the family Simaroubaceae . Its size is disputed; some botanists treat it as consisting of only one species , Quassia amara from tropical South America , while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a pantropical ...
Usage examples of quassia.
Quassia or Quashy, the black horse, and Caustic, the old bay, with whom he jogged round the village.
The Cedron of commerce is not unlike a large blanched almond - it is often yellowish, hard and compact, but can be easily cut, it is intensely bitter, not unlike quassia in taste and has no odour.