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
   "The bright scarlet flowers of the Quassia amara tree attract hummingbirds";
   - quassia, bitterwood

Type of: bitterwood tree

Part of: genus Quassia

Encyclopedia: Quassia amara