quassia   (TTS Sound)

The quassia has 2 Senses.

• quassia
• 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
• 殺虫剤、強壮剤、駆虫剤として用いられる苦味化合物

• quassia, quassia amara, bitterwood
• 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
• 明るい真っ赤な花弁を有し、貴重なきめ細かな黄色がかった木を産出する立派な南米の低木または小さな木