JAMAICA QUASSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jamaica quassia mean? 

• JAMAICA QUASSIA (noun)
  The noun JAMAICA QUASSIA has 2 senses:

1. similar to the extract from Quassia amara

2. West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia

  Familiarity information: JAMAICA QUASSIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAMAICA QUASSIA (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bitterwood; Jamaica quassia; Picrasma excelsa; Picrasma excelsum

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)