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1. 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

2. West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia

3. 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

1.

a. : a West Indian tree (Picrasma excelsum) of the family Simaroubaceae that yields Jamaica quassia

b. : paradise tree 1

2. : quassia 2

/bit"euhr wood'/, n.

1. any of various chiefly tropical trees having wood with a bitter taste, as Vatairea lundelii or Simarouba glauca.

2. quassia.

[BITTER + WOOD¹]

bittˈerwood noun

Any of various trees, esp of the family Simarubaceae

Main Entry: ↑bitter