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    GENUS CINCHONA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal barkplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Chinchona; genus Cinchona

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Cinchona" is a kind of...):

    asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Cinchona"):

    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 Cinchona" 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)

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