cinchona (n.)

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

    [ Syn: cinchona bark , peruvian bark , jesuits bark ]

  2. any of several trees of the genus Cinchona

    [ Syn: chinchona ]

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