quassia

名词 quassia:

1. a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma
2. 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：bitterwood, Quassia amara

quas.sia

n.（名词）

A tropical American shrub or small tree(Quassia amara) having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable, lustrous, fine-grained, yellowish-white wood.
苦木：一种热带美洲灌木或小树（苦木 苦木属） ，开鲜艳的猩红色花 ，所产木材珍贵、有光泽、细质、呈黄白色
The wood of this plant.
苦木料：这种植物的木料
A bitter substance obtained from the wood of this plant, used in medicine and as an insecticide.
苦木药：从这种植物的木质中获取的一种味苦的物质，用作制药及杀虫剂

来源：
New Latin
现代拉丁语
after Graman Quassi , an 8th-century Surinamese
源自格来曼 夸西 ，8世纪的苏里南人