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.
- synonyms: quassia, Quassia amara
- West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia.
- synonyms: Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum
- 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.
- synonyms: paradise tree, Simarouba glauca
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