quassia
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 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
Types & categories
- organic compound hypernym
- Jamaica quassia hyponym
Sense 2 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
Types & categories
- bitterwood tree hypernym
Parts & wholes
- genus Quassia member holonym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | organic compound |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Jamaica quassia |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | genus Quassia |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | bitterwood tree |