cinchona bark
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cinchona bark — noun medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine • Syn: ↑cinchona, ↑Peruvian bark, ↑Jesuit s bark • Hypernyms: ↑bark • Part Holonyms: ↑cinchona, ↑chinchona … Useful english dictionary
Cinchona — For other uses, see Cinchona (disambiguation). Cinchona Cinchona pubescens flowers Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
cinchona — The dried bark of the root and stem of various species of C., a genus of evergreen trees (family Rubiaceae), native of South America but cultivated in various tropical regions. The cultivated bark contains 7 to 10% of total alkaloids; about 70%… … Medical dictionary
Cinchona — Cinchona C. officinalis … Wikipedia Español
Cinchona cordifolia — noun Colombian tree; source of Cartagena bark (a cinchona bark) • Syn: ↑Cartagena bark, ↑Cinchona lancifolia • Hypernyms: ↑cinchona, ↑chinchona • Member Holonyms: ↑genus Cinchona, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Cinchona lancifolia — noun Colombian tree; source of Cartagena bark (a cinchona bark) • Syn: ↑Cartagena bark, ↑Cinchona cordifolia • Hypernyms: ↑cinchona, ↑chinchona • Member Holonyms: ↑genus Cinchona, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
cinchona — n. S American tree with bark yielding quinine; Peruvian bark. ♦ cinchonic, a. ♦ cinchonine, n. quinine like alkaloid extracted from cinchona bark. ♦ cinchonism n. condition due to over use of quinine and other extracts of cinchona… … Dictionary of difficult words
cinchona — n. 1 a any evergreen tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to S. America, with fragrant flowers and yielding cinchona bark. b the bark of this tree, containing quinine. 2 any drug from this bark formerly used as a tonic and to stimulate the … Useful english dictionary
cinchona — n. Quinquina, Peruvian bark, Jesuit s bark, Cinchona bark … New dictionary of synonyms
Cinchona — Cin*cho na, n. [So named from the wife of Count Chinchon, viceroy of Peru in the seventeenth century, who by its use was freed from an intermittent fever, and after her return to Spain, contributed to the general propagation of this remedy.] 1.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
