QUASSIA
Quassia
Quassia is a flora genus in the family Simaroubaceae. Its size is disputed; some botanists treat it as consisting of only one species, Quassia amara from tropical South America, while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a pantropical genus containing up to 40 species of trees and shrubs. The genus was named after a former slave from Surinam, Graman Quassi in the eighteenth century. He discovered the medicinal properties of the bark of Quassia amara.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Quassia
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quassia
Noun
- Any of several tropic trees, of the genus , having scarlet flowers.
- The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark.
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