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Definition of Quassia
1. Noun. 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.
2. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Bitterwood Tree
Group relationships: Genus Quassia
Definition of Quassia
1. n. The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeæ, as Quassia amara, Picræna excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
Definition of Quassia
1. Noun. Any of several tropic trees, of the genus ''Quassia'', having scarlet flowers ¹
2. Noun. The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quassia
1. a tropical tree [n -S]
Medical Definition of Quassia
1. The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer. Origin: NL. From the name of a negro, Quassy, or Quash, who prescribed this article as a specific. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quassia
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Literary usage of Quassia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1917)
"Quass., Bitter Wood, Bitter (Ash, Bark) quassia, Lofty quassia, ... Jan., black
drupe, size of a pea; quassia amara, small branching tree or shrub; ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The supply of the drug originally came from Surinam ; small quantities are exported
to Europe, and under the name of Surinam quassia it is still used in ..."
3. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"quassia wood is exported from Jamaica, the amount in 1873 being about 60 tons.
... quassia wood, or as it is also called Bitter wood (or sometimes Jamaica ..."
4. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanbury (1879)
"It was derived from quassia amara L., a shrub or small tree with handsome ...
The wood of Q. amara, called Surinam quassia, is however still used in France ..."
5. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1874)
"Dose: Of quassia Wood in Pander, pr. x-xx. Of the Extract, gr. iij-v. Of the
Infusion (quassia Chips gr. Ix, Cold Water fl. oz. x, infused for half an hour ..."
6. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"Tincture or cold infusion of the wood. Clinical.—Intermittent fever. Worms.
Characteristics.—The quassia now found in the shops in the form of " quassia ..."
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