n.
1.handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood
2.West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
3.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
Idiom of the Day
up a blind alley
on a route that leads nowhere, at a dead end
The police were up a blind alley in their search for evidence of the crime.