picrasma excelsum

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   West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia

   SynonymsJamaica quassiabitterwoodPicrasma excelsa

   Broaderbitterwood tree

   Part ofPicrasma

Questions about picrasma excelsum

What does picrasma excelsum mean?

picrasma excelsum means "West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia".

What is another word for picrasma excelsum?

Close synonyms include Jamaica quassia, bitterwood, Picrasma excelsa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is picrasma excelsum a common word?

picrasma excelsum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.