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JAMAICA QUASSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
Synonyms:
bitterwood; Jamaica quassia; Picrasma excelsa; Picrasma excelsum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Jamaica quassia" is a kind of...):
bitterwood tree (any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste)
Meronyms (substance of "Jamaica quassia"):
Jamaica quassia (similar to the extract from Quassia amara)
Holonyms ("Jamaica quassia" is a member of...):
genus Picrasma; Picrasma (small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Similar to the extract from Quassia amara
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("Jamaica quassia" is a kind of...):
quassia (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)
Holonyms ("Jamaica quassia" is a substance of...):
bitterwood; Jamaica quassia; Picrasma excelsa; Picrasma excelsum (West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia)
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