CHINCHONA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does chinchona mean? 

• CHINCHONA (noun)
  The noun CHINCHONA has 1 sense:

1. any of several trees of the genus Cinchona

  Familiarity information: CHINCHONA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHINCHONA (noun)

Meaning:

Any of several trees of the genus Cinchona

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

chinchona; cinchona

Hypernyms ("chinchona" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (parts of "chinchona"):

cinchona; cinchona bark; Jesuit's bark; Peruvian bark (medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chinchona"):

Cartagena bark; Cinchona cordifolia; Cinchona lancifolia (Colombian tree; source of Cartagena bark (a cinchona bark))

calisaya; Cinchona calisaya; Cinchona ledgeriana; Cinchona officinalis (Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark)

Cinchona pubescens; cinchona tree (small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark)

Holonyms ("chinchona" is a member of...):

genus Chinchona; genus Cinchona (large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark)