quassia

noun

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

a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge

Roots

quassiquassi- · Sranan · named after Graman Quassi, a Surinamese healer a-a · Latin · botanical noun suffix

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