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Found 2 items, similar to bitterwood.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bitterwood
bitterwood
n 1: 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 [syn:
quassia,
Quassia amara]
2: West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia [syn:
Jamaica quassia
,
Picrasma excelsa,
Picrasma excelsum]
3: 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 [syn:
paradise tree
,
Simarouba glauca]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bitterwood
Bitterwood
\Bit"ter*wood`\, n.
A West Indian tree (
Picr[ae]na excelsa) from the wood of
which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
[1913 Webster]
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