bitterwood

noun

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

Similar word(s): quassia

Definition categories: plant

2. West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia

Definition categories: plant

3. medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits

Definition categories: plant