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- noun obsolete A medicine for the treatment of
malaria prepared from the bark of variousCinchona trees and shrubs. The main active ingredient wasquinine .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[So called because it was first known to Europeans through Jesuit missions in Peru.]
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