quassia

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noun 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
noun 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

From the genus name translingual Quassia, named after Surinamese physician and botanist Graman Quassi.

One third of a pint of quassia to which add a tablespoonful of rocksalt. — Ulysses, James Joyce

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