quassia

n 1: a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and

vermifuge; extracted from the wood an 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: {bitterwood}, {Quassia amara}]