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Definition: Simaruba amara
Stavewood
\Stave"wood`\ (st[=a]v"w[oo^]d`), n. (Bot.)
A tall tree (
Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America.
It is one of the trees which yields quassia.
[1913 Webster]
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 is intensely bitter, and is used in
medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making
beer.
[1913 Webster]
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