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n. A tropical American shrub or small tree (Quassia amara) having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable, lustrous, fine-grained, yellowish-white wood.

n. The wood of this plant.

n. A bitter substance obtained from the wood of this plant, used in medicine and as an insecticide.

n. Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers

n. The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark

"One third of a pint of quassia to which add a tablespoonful of rocksalt."

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