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bitterwood

NOUN
  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
  2. West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
  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

How To Use bitterwood In A Sentence

  • It was a favorite saying of his that more patients would be cured by climbing a bitterwood tree, than by drinking a disgusting decoction of its leaves. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
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