bitterwood   (TTS Sound)

The noun bitterwood has 3 senses

• quassia, bitterwood, Quassia amara -- (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)


• Jamaica quassia, bitterwood, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum -- (West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia)


• paradise tree, bitterwood, Simarouba glauca -- (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)