Quassia is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUASSIA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the bitter wood of several tropical American trees, used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer
• a South American shrub or small tree related to ailanthus.
• the wood, bark, or root of the quassia, yielding a bitter medicinal tonic, insecticide, and vermifuge.
• The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
• 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
• 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
• tropical American tree
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a tropical tree

Words related to QUASSIA

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Words that contain QUASSIA

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How to use QUASSIA in a sentence

• Exercise, perfect cleanliness, the early morning sluice-down with cold water, and a quassia tonic.
• The best tonic to give in cases of worms is the extract of quassia.
• And there is an excuse for preferring champagne to waterside porter, heady with grains of paradise and quassia, salt and cocculus indicus.
• For soaking the finer seeds, bitter liquids, such as that of Quassia and Gentian, should be used.
• Why is Quassia so called? Because it was named in honour of a negro, Quassia, a drunken doctor, who discovered the virtue of the wood in curing malignant fevers.
• Soft soap dissolved in water makes a cheap and effectual wash for exterminating all kinds of Aphis, and to these ingredients quassia may with advantage be added.
• One pound of soft soap will suffice for ten gallons of water, into which stir the extract obtained by boiling one pound of quassia chips in water.
• To impart to the beer a bitter taste, the fraudulent brewer employed quassia wood and wormwood as a substitute for hops.
• It requires but little discrimination to distinguish very clearly the peculiar bitterness of quassia in adulterated porter.
• Surinam quassia is not, however, to be met with now.
• Quassia acts as a narcotic poison on flies and other insects.

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