bitter wood

名词 bitter wood:

1. handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark
   同义词：quassia, bitterwood, Quassia amara
2. West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
   同义词：Jamaica quassia, bitterwood, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum
3. 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
   同义词：paradise tree, bitterwood, Simarouba glauca