Definition of Simaruba

1. a tropical tree [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Simaruba

silylformylation
silylium
silyloxy
silyls
silymarin
silymarins
silyne
silynes
sim
sima
simal
simar
simarre
simarres
simars
simaruba (current term)
simarubas
simas
simazine
simazines
simber
simblot
simblots
simbu group viruses
simethicone
simferite
simfile
simfiles
simi
simia

Literary usage of Simaruba

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.. by Robert Adam, Royal Society of Edinburgh (1790)
"X. A BOTANICAL and MEDICAL ACCOUNT of the QUASSIA simaruba, or Tree which produces the Cortex simaruba. ..."

2. An Analytical Compendium of the Various Branches of Medical Science: For the by John Neill, Francis Gurney Smith (1861)
"S.—Wood of the Quassia amara, and simaruba ex- celsa, trees growing in South America ... simaruba,—the bark of the simaruba officinal™ possesses properties ..."

3. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"It was described by Wright in 1778 under the name of Q. simaruba, in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb., ii, p. 73, with 2 plates of the male and female plants ..."

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