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    CINCHONA BARK

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidineplay

    Synonyms:

    cinchona; cinchona bark; Jesuit's bark; Peruvian bark

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("cinchona bark" is a kind of...):

    bark (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)

    Holonyms ("cinchona bark" is a part of...):

    chinchona; cinchona (any of several trees of the genus Cinchona)

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