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UKBitterwood
/bˈɪtəwˌʊd/
/bˈɪɾɚwˌʊd/Bitterwood
[NOUN]1
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
2
West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
3
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