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Defenition of the word bitterwood

    • Defenition of the word bitterwood

      • West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
      • 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
      • 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 for the word bitterwood

      • Jamaica quassia
      • paradise tree
      • Picrasma excelsa
      • Picrasma excelsum
      • quassia
      • Quassia amara
      • Simarouba glauca

    Meronymys for the word bitterwood

      • genus Picrasma
      • genus Quassia
      • genus Simarouba
      • Jamaica quassia
      • Picrasma
      • Simarouba

    Hypernyms for the word bitterwood

      • bitterwood tree

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