quassia
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- 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
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| 1 | russian | 2 | 80 |
| 2 | russia | 2 | 72 |
| 3 | asia | 2 | 44 |
| 4 | russians | 2 | 31 |
| 5 | russia's | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | prussia | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | quasi | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | quasar | 2 | 0 |
| 9 | cassia | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | assira | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | quai | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | uliassi | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | quaglia | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | lassila | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | grassia | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | eurasia | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | assyria | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | umass | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | tassi | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | sassi | 2 | 0 |
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Definitions: 2
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 11
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
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