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A bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge
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quassia
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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...
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.