Swedish Meaning of quassia

Kvassia

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Definitions and Meaning of quassia in English

Wordnet

quassia (n)

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

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

Webster

quassia (n.)

The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.

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Kvassia

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, handsome South A

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quassation => skakning, quass => квас, quasje => nästan, quasi-stellar radio source => Kvasar, quasi-royal => halvofficiell,