'Bitterwood' definitions:
Definition of 'bitterwood'
(from WordNet)
noun
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: quassia, bitterwood, Quassia amara]
noun
West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia [syn: Jamaica quassia, bitterwood, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum]
noun
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 [syn: paradise tree, bitterwood, Simarouba glauca]
Definition of 'Bitterwood'
From: GCIDE
- Bitterwood \Bit"ter*wood`\, n. A West Indian tree (Picr[ae]na excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained. [1913 Webster]