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bitterwood
 
Noun bitterwood has 3 senses
  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
    --1 is a kind of bitterwood tree
    --1 is a member of genus Quassia
  2. Jamaica quassia, bitterwood, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum - West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
    --2 is a kind of bitterwood tree
    --2 is a member of Picrasma, genus Picrasma
    --2 has substances: Jamaica quassia
  3. paradise tree, bitterwood, Simarouba glauca - medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits
    --3 is a kind of bitterwood tree
    --3 is a member of Simarouba, genus Simarouba
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