Noun quassia has 2 senses
  1. 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
    --1 is a kind of
    organic compound
    --1 has particulars: Jamaica quassia
  2. 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
    --2 is a kind of bitterwood tree
    --2 is a member of genus Quassia
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