Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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bitterwood tree | Yes | No | No | No |
quassia | Yes | No | No | No |
bitterwood tree (noun) | quassia (noun) |
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any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste | 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 |
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 |