Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun quassia_amara

1 sense of quassia amara

Sense 1
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)
       => bitterwood tree -- (any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste)