bitterwood

noun

medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits

West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia

handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood

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