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CINCHONA PUBESCENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cinchona pubescens mean?
• CINCHONA PUBESCENS (noun)
The noun CINCHONA PUBESCENS has 1 sense:
1. small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
Familiarity information: CINCHONA PUBESCENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cinchona pubescens; cinchona tree
Hypernyms ("Cinchona pubescens" is a kind of...):
chinchona; cinchona (any of several trees of the genus Cinchona)
Holonyms ("Cinchona pubescens" 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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