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Definition: Quassia |
QuassiaNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Quassia \Quas"si*a\, noun. [New Latin expression. From the name of negro, Quassy, or Quash, who prescribed this article as specific.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Quassia" is a common misspelling or typo for: Eurasia, Quasar, Queasy, Russia. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Quassia An American plant, or rather genus of plants, named after Quassi, a negro. "Linnaeus applied this name to a tree of Surinam in honour of a negro, Quassi, who employed its bark as a remedy for fever; and enjoyed such a reputation among the natives as to be almost worshipped by some,"- Lindley and Moore: Treatise of Botany, part ii. p. 947.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: QuassiaSynonym: bitterwood (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unsavoriness | Noun: unsavoriness. Adjective: amaritude; acrimony, acridity (bitterness) b; roughness. (sour); acerbity, austerity; gall and wormwood, rue, quassia, aloes; marah; sickener. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Quassia |
| English words defined with "quassia": bitterwood ♦ Jamaica quassia ♦ Multum ♦ Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum ♦ Quassia amara, Quassin ♦ Stavewood. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "quassia": ALEXERITIC, ANTIDIARRHETIC, ANTIHEPATITIC ♦ SNAKEBITE CURES. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "quassia": Quassin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Quassia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (Quassia), Manx (quassia), Swedish (quassia). |
Expressions using "quassia": genus Quassia ♦ Jamaica quassia ♦ Quassia amara ♦ quassia family. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
quassia | 21 |
quassia chip | 7 |
amara quassia | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "quassia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كاسية, خشب مر, الكواسية نبات طبي مر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Квасия. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 苦木类. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kvassia, fluetrae, bittertrae. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kwassiehout. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Quassia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bitterholz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάσσια (cassia, senna), ίάσσια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Kvasszia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | quassia, legno quassio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | quassia, billey quassia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assiaquay quássia. (various references) кассия (cassia), горький отвар из кассии. (various references) kvasija. (various references) cuasia. (various references) quassia. (various references) kavasya (bitterwood), acıağaç. (various references) касія. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Picraena excelsa, QUASSIA AMARA. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quassia": quassias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quassia" (pronounced kwÄ"shēu) |
| 3 | -sh ē u | cassia, dementia, minutia, minutiae. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-q-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: aquas, assai, quais, quasi, quass. | |
-3 letters: aqua, quai, suqs. | |
-4 letters: aas, ais, ass, qua, sau, sis, suq. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, as, is, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-q-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: quassias. | |
+2 letters: aquarists. | |
+4 letters: marquisates, pasquinades, quesadillas, rainsqualls, squamations. | |
+5 letters: aquarellists, aquatintists, metasequoias, quasicrystal. | |
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