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CINCHONA BARK

• CINCHONA BARK (noun)
The noun CINCHONA BARK has 1 sense:

1. medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine

Familiarity information: CINCHONA BARK used as a noun is very rare.

• CINCHONA BARK (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cinchona; cinchona bark; Jesuit's bark; Peruvian bark

Hypernyms ("cinchona bark" is a kind of...):

bark (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)

Holonyms ("cinchona bark" is a part of...):

chinchona; cinchona (any of several trees of the genus Cinchona)

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