Etymology

quassia

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Today it means: Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers. Full definition →

translingual Quassia
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  1. translingual · derived fromQuassia
  2. English todayquassia

From the genus name translingual Quassia, named after Surinamese physician and botanist Graman Quassi.

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