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

2 senses of quassia

Sense 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)
       => organic compound -- (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

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