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Cinchona
Meaning of Cinchona
noun
- 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.
- The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
- Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.
Information about Cinchona
- It is a name.
Hyphenation of Cinchona
Cin-chona
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 letters.
- Cinchona is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables