bitterwood

Noun bitterwood has 3 senses

• bitterwood(n = noun.plant) quassia, quassia amara - 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; Array
is a kind of bitterwood tree
is a member of genus quassia

• bitterwood(n = noun.plant) jamaica quassia, picrasma excelsa, picrasma excelsum - West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia; Array
is a kind of bitterwood tree
is a member of genus picrasma, picrasma

• bitterwood(n = noun.plant) paradise tree, simarouba glauca - 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; Array
is a kind of bitterwood tree
is a member of genus simarouba, simarouba