quas|sia

quas|sia
quas|sia «KWOSH uh», noun.
1. a bitter drug obtained from the wood of various tropical American trees, used as a tonic, a purge, and a substitute for hops.
2. the wood of any of these trees.
3. any one of these trees.
╂[< New Latin Quassia the genus name of the trees < Quassi, a Surinam native of the 1700's, who first used the bark as a fever remedy]

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