Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of evergreen trees, natural order Rubiaceæ, natives of the Andes from the United States of Colombia to Bolivia, growing chiefly on the eastern slopes at an average altitude of from 5,000 to 8,000 feet.
- noun [lowercase] The medicinal bark of the species of Cinchona.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.
- noun (Med.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thetribe Cinchoneae — thecinchona trees .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several trees of the genus Cinchona
- noun medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine
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Examples
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He had chosen the name Cinchona, and the healers’ guild, after asking a few questions to which he apparently gave satisfactory answers, had welcomed him, particularly since one of their own had a daughter who needed a husband.
CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004
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He had chosen the name Cinchona, and the healers’ guild, after asking a few questions to which he apparently gave satisfactory answers, had welcomed him, particularly since one of their own had a daughter who needed a husband.
CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004
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In her honor, the Spanish renamed the Peruvian tree the "Cinchona" tree.
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In her honor, the Spanish renamed the Peruvian tree the "Cinchona" tree.
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In “A treatise on Materia Medica” by Dr. William Cullen, it was mentioned that the drug Cinchona was used to cure Malaria, but that it (Cinchona) would also cause the symptoms similar to Malaria if the drug were taken in overdose.
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Cinchona bark had long been used by indigenous people as a remedy for fevers, and at the end of the seventeenth century, a British physician, in one of the earliest controlled studies of a drug, proved that its effect was unique to what was then known as tertian fever.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Hahnemann began experimenting on himself with medicinals and observed that when he took a dose (doses in homeopathy are substances that are diluted to infinitesimal amounts, sometimes so small that nothing can be seen even with a microscope) of Peruvian bark (Cinchona officinalis), which is the essence of quinine, he generated a set of symptoms in his own body that reminded him of malaria.
Making the Case for a Real Cure: The Power of Homeopathy 2009
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Most of these lands being unusable, after converting them into fertile lands, we can use them for agriculture. 26,000 acres of land are being use for Cinchona cultivation.
���Economic Liberation the main motive behind Gorkhaland��� GJM 2008
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I am told by the Trader from whom I procured Jesuit Bark that the Indians use a Plant called Gallberry, which rivals the Bark of Cinchona for bitterness and is thought capital for Use in tertian and quartan Fevers.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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Here was a small clearing, with abundance of tree-ferns and some young plantations of Cinchona.
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