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Meaning of word bitterwood from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

bitterwood   noun

Meaning : 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

Meaning : West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia.

Synonyms : jamaica quassia, picrasma excelsa, picrasma excelsum

Meaning : 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