QUASSIA
\kwˈaʃə], \kwˈaʃə], \k_w_ˈa_ʃ_ə]\
Definitions of QUASSIA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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
By Princeton University
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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
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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A South American tree, the bitter wood and bark of which are used as a tonic, so called from a negro named Quassy, who first discovered its properties.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A West India tree, from which is obtained the Lignum Quansiee, Quassia (Ph.U. S.) It is an intensely durable bitter, without astringency; and has been employed as a tonic and stomachic. It is generally given in the form of infusion. The bitter principle is called Quassin.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Of the U. S. Ph. and Br. Ph., the wood of Picroena excelsa, or Quassia amara. In the shops it is usually usually met with in chips or raspings; it is also made into cups, called q. cups or bitter cups. It is intensely bitter, and was formerly used to replace hops in beer. Its medicinal properties are due to the presence of quassin. It is used as a stomachic and tonic, and against constipation due to intestinal atony.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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