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GENUS CHINCHONA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark
Synonyms:
genus Chinchona; genus Cinchona
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Chinchona" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Chinchona"):
chinchona; cinchona (any of several trees of the genus Cinchona)
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 ("genus Chinchona" is a member of...):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)
