Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bitterwood"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bitterwood
n 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 [syn: {quassia}, {Quassia amara}]
2: West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia [syn: {Jamaica
quassia}, {Picrasma excelsa}, {Picrasma excelsum}]
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 [syn: {paradise
tree}, {Simarouba glauca}]
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