Bitterwood used in a sentence

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

See also: quassia

noun

West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia

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