Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
quassia , 2. - noun A tall stout tree, Sterculia fætida, of the East Indies, eastern Africa, and Australia. The wood is soft, and thought to be of little value.
- noun In Australia, Flindersia Schottiana, one of the trees called
Queensland yellow-wood .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A tall tree (
Simaruba amara ) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Simaruba amara, a tall
tree oftropical America , one of the trees that yieldquassia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large tree of Australasia
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