QUASSIA
Scrabble letter values: Q10U1A1S1S1I1A1 = 16
Definition
- noun a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge.
- noun handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood. — synonyms: bitterwood, Quassia_amara
Examples
- “extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma”
- “yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark”