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    CHINCHONA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of several trees of the genus Cinchonaplay

    Synonyms:

    chinchona; cinchona

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("chinchona" is a kind of...):

    tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

    Meronyms (parts of "chinchona"):

    cinchona; cinchona bark; Jesuit's bark; Peruvian bark (medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chinchona"):

    Cartagena bark; Cinchona cordifolia; Cinchona lancifolia (Colombian tree; source of Cartagena bark (a cinchona bark))

    calisaya; Cinchona calisaya; Cinchona ledgeriana; Cinchona officinalis (Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark)

    Cinchona pubescens; cinchona tree (small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark)

    Holonyms ("chinchona" 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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