名詞 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
   同義詞：bitterwood, Quassia amara

quas.sia

n.（名詞）

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：一種熱帶美洲灌木或小樹(shù)（苦木 苦木屬） ，開(kāi)鮮艷的猩紅色花 ，所產(chǎn)木材珍貴、有光澤、細(xì)質(zhì)、呈黃白色
The wood of this plant.
苦木料：這種植物的木料
A bitter substance obtained from the wood of this plant, used in medicine and as an insecticide.
苦木藥：從這種植物的木質(zhì)中獲取的一種味苦的物質(zhì)，用作制藥及殺蟲(chóng)劑

來(lái)源：
New Latin
現(xiàn)代拉丁語(yǔ)
after Graman Quassi , an 8th-century Surinamese
源自格來(lái)曼 夸西 ，8世紀(jì)的蘇里南人