Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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bitterwood | Yes | No | No | No |
Simarouba | Yes | No | No | No |
bitterwood (noun) | Simarouba (noun) |
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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 | type genus of Simaroubaceae; tropical American trees and shrubs having a pale soft wood and bitter bark |
West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia | |
medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits |