bitterwood
Nouns
- (n) 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 Quassia amara, quassia,
- (n) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum, Jamaica quassia,
- (n) 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 paradise tree, Simarouba glauca,