| slovo | definícia |
quassia
(encz) | quassia, n: |
Quassia
(gcide) | Quassia \Quas"si*a\, n. [NL. From the name of a negro, Quassy,
or Quash, who prescribed this article as a specific.]
The wood of several tropical American trees of the order
Simarube[ae], as Quassia amara, Picr[ae]na excelsa, and
Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in
medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making
beer.
[1913 Webster] |
quassia
(wn) | quassia
n 1: 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
2: 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 [syn: quassia, bitterwood, Quassia amara] |
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quassia family
(encz) | quassia family, n: |
Quassia
(gcide) | Quassia \Quas"si*a\, n. [NL. From the name of a negro, Quassy,
or Quash, who prescribed this article as a specific.]
The wood of several tropical American trees of the order
Simarube[ae], as Quassia amara, Picr[ae]na excelsa, and
Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in
medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making
beer.
[1913 Webster] |
Quassia amara
(gcide) | Quassia \Quas"si*a\, n. [NL. From the name of a negro, Quassy,
or Quash, who prescribed this article as a specific.]
The wood of several tropical American trees of the order
Simarube[ae], as Quassia amara, Picr[ae]na excelsa, and
Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in
medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making
beer.
[1913 Webster] |
genus quassia
(wn) | genus Quassia
n 1: tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large
scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal |
jamaica quassia
(wn) | Jamaica quassia
n 1: similar to the extract from Quassia amara
2: West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia [syn:
Jamaica quassia, bitterwood, Picrasma excelsa,
Picrasma excelsum] |
quassia amara
(wn) | Quassia amara
n 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 [syn: quassia, bitterwood, {Quassia
amara}] |
quassia family
(wn) | quassia family
n 1: chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having
dry usually one-seeded winged fruit [syn: Simaroubaceae,
family Simaroubaceae, quassia family] |
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