QUININE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quinine mean? 

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

1. a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUININE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

antimalarial; antimalarial drug (a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria)

Holonyms ("quinine" is a substance of...):

quinine water; tonic; tonic water (lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine)

 Context examples 

"What you need is quinine, an' I'm goin' to dose you up stiff as soon as we make McGurry."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In the presence of separately and simultaneously administered caricotamide, tretazicar is converted to the short-lived cytotoxic DNA cross-linking agent dinitrobenzamide by NAD(P)H quinine oxidoreductase 2 (NQO2), resulting in the inhibition of DNA replication and the induction of apoptosis.

(Caricotamide/Tretazicar, NCI Thesaurus)