Definition of Picrasma

1. Noun. Small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia.


Medical Definition of Picrasma

1. See: quassia. Origin: L., fr. G. Pikrasmos, bitterness (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Picrasma

Pick's bodies
Pick's bundle
Pick's syndrome
Pick cell
Pickering
Pickeringia
Pickeringia montana
Pickett
Pickett's charge
Pickford
Pico
Pico de Orizaba
Picoides
Picrasma
Picrasma excelsa
Picrasma excelsum
Picris
Picris echioides
Picrous Day
Pict
Pictionary
Pictish
Pictor
Picts
Picture Sorts
Picumnus
Picus viridis

Literary usage of Picrasma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Fruit of 1-5 tint foliaceous samara; ; leaves pinnate . 1. AILANTHUS. Stamens as many as petals ; leaves pinnate . . 3. picrasma. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1844)
"subject a Javanese genus, nearly related to Brucea, and called picrasma by Dr. Blume ... He regards also as belonging to picrasma, but forming a sub- genus, ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1909)
"The intensely bitter root-bark was subjected to proximate analysis by FH Davis (1885), but no definite bitter principle was isolated. picrasma ..."

4. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"... a member of a small tropical Asian genus, which, as an inhabitant of Yezo, seems to have strayed far beyond the limits of its present home. As picrasma ..."

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