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Definition of Picrasma excelsa
1. Noun. West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia.
Generic synonyms: Bitterwood Tree
Group relationships: Genus Picrasma, Picrasma
Terms within: Jamaica Quassia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picrasma Excelsa
Literary usage of Picrasma excelsa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"Bitter Wood) The wood of picrasma excelsa (Swartz) Planchon, ... Quassia is the
wood of the tree, picrasma excelsa, and its bitterness is well known. ..."
2. Materia Medica and Therapeutics: Including Pharmacy and Pharmacology by Reynold Webb Wilcox (1917)
"The wood of picrasma excelsa (Swartz) Planchon (Fam. ... picrasma excelsa.—Usually
in chips, raspings, or shavings, occasionally in small cubes or billets; ..."
3. Practical Pharmacy for Pharmacists and Physicians: A Text Book for Students by Birdsey Lucius Maltbie (1910)
"The wood of picrasma excelsa, known commercially as Jamaica quassia or of quassia
amara, known commercially as Surinam quassia. A tree, resembling the ash, ..."
4. Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Including Pharmacy and Pharmacology by Reynold Webb Wilcox (1917)
"The wood of picrasma excelsa (Swartz) Planchon (Fam. ... picrasma excelsa.—Usually
in chips, raspings, or shavings, occasionally in small cubes or billets; ..."
5. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"picrasma excelsa, Planchon. Figures.—Trans. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, iii, t. 6, cop.
in Hayne, ix, t.16, and Woodville, vol. v; Nees, t. 381; Steph. & Ch., t. ..."
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