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 Bit·ter·wood n. A West Indian tree (Picræna excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
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 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]