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
同义词：quassiaQuassia amara
West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
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
同义词：paradise treeSimarouba glauca
英汉双解大词典
bitterwood/ˈbɪtəˌwʊd/
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any of several simaroubaceous trees of the genus Picrasma of S and SE Asia and the Caribbean, whose bitter bark and wood are used in medicine as a substitute for quassia 苦木科的树