quassia
/'kwɒʃiә/
📖 中文释义
- n. 苦木科植物, 苦木浸膏
- [化] 苦木
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. 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
- n. 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