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CALISAYA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does calisaya mean?
• CALISAYA (noun)
The noun CALISAYA has 1 sense:
1. Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
Familiarity information: CALISAYA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
calisaya; Cinchona calisaya; Cinchona ledgeriana; Cinchona officinalis
Hypernyms ("calisaya" is a kind of...):
chinchona; cinchona (any of several trees of the genus Cinchona)
Holonyms ("calisaya" is a member of...):
genus Chinchona; genus Cinchona (large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark)
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