CINCHONA BARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cinchona bark mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CINCHONA BARK (noun)

Sense 1

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)