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Noun: Quassia amara
  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
    - quassia, bitterwood

Type of: bitterwood tree

Part of: genus Quassia

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