quassia amara

1. 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

   Synonymsquassiabitterwood

   Broaderbitterwood tree

   Part ofgenus Quassia

Questions about quassia amara

What does quassia amara mean?

quassia amara means "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".

What is another word for quassia amara?

Close synonyms include quassia, bitterwood. 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 quassia amara a common word?

quassia amara 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.