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quassia   (TTS Sound)

The noun quassia has 2 senses

• quassia -- (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)


• quassia, bitterwood, Quassia amara -- (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)