Usually means: Bitter compound derived from quassia.
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  1. quassin: Collins English Dictionary
  2. quassin: Wordnik
  3. quassin: Wiktionary
  4. quassin: Dictionary.com
  5. Quassin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Quassin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. quassin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Quassin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. quassin: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Quassin: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quassin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (quassin)

noun:  (organic chemistry) A very bitter triterpenoid lactone, extracted as white crystals from the quassia tree, used in traditional Chinese medicine

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