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noun
A tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: quinquina
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: cinchona bark, Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark, quinine bark, quinquina
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
any of several trees of the genus Cinchona
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chinchona
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tree
Narrower terms: Cartagena bark, Cinchona cordifolia, Cinchona lancifolia, calisaya, Cinchona officinalis, Cinchona ledgeriana, Cinchona calisaya, cinchona tree, Cinchona pubescens
noun
medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cinchona bark, Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bark
History
From New Latin cinchona, from Spanish Chinchón. Named by Carl Linnaeus after Ana de Osorio, 4th Countess of Chinchón (1599–1625), the wife of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, who was allegedly cured of a fever by the bark.
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