cinchona

Meaning of cinchona

noun
  1. A tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark.
  2. The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
  3. Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.

Information about cinchona

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of cinchona is: cinchonas.
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Hyphenation of cinchona

cin-chona

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • cinchona is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

cinchona synonyms

Meaning chinchona:

chinchona

Meaning :

quinquina

Anagrams of cinchona

chincona

Words that rhyme with cinchona

Barahona, tahona, Chuchona, Cinchona, chinchona, Holosiphona, Siphona, antiphona, hesperiphona, Rhona, Mashona, Shona, chishona

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