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Bitterwood

nounid 23598·updated May 18, 2026
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medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits

polysemous

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Variants

synonym
paradise tree
plural
Bitterwoods
possessive
Bitterwood's
pluralpossessive
Bitterwoods'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary3 sensesview framework →
§1
medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits
§2
West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
§3
handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood

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