Meaning : 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.
Meaning : 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.
Synonyms : bitterwood, quassia amara