cinchona

Etymology
From, from. Named by after, the wife of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, who was allegedly cured of a fever by the bark.

Noun

 * 1) A tree or shrub of the genus, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark.
 * 2) The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
 * 3)  Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.
 * 1) The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
 * 2)  Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.
 * 1)  Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.
 * 1)  Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: хининово дърво
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 * Tagalog: singkona


 * Bulgarian: хининова кора
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: kiinapuun kuori
 * French: herbe des jésuites
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, хи́нная ко́рка, хи́нная кора́, хи́нная насто́йка
 * Spanish: cascarilla, chinchona,, quinaquina, quino, corteza de quino
 * Turkish: kinin lapası, Cizvit merhemi
 * Welsh: rhisgl yr India, rhisgl Periw