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quassia amara
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Noun quassia amara has 1 sense
- quassia amara(n = noun.plant) bitterwood, quassia - 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; Array is a kind of bitterwood tree
is a member of genus quassia
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