Quassia
Quas´si`a
| n. | 1. | The wood of several tropical American trees of the order |
| Noun | 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 |
| 2. |  quassia - 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 barkSynonyms: bitterwood, Quassia amara |