quassia

quassia is a valid 7-letter word worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends.

Meaning

What does quassia mean?

  • noun

    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

  • noun

    a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma

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