quassia
NOUN
/kwɑʃə/
7 LETTERS · 2 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH Q
quassia is a valid 7-letter word worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
Q10U1A1S1S1I1A1
10 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =16 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 32TRIPLE WORD → 48
MEANING
What does quassia mean?
NOUN · 2 SENSES
1
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.
SYNONYMS
BROADER
2
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.
BROADER
NARROWER