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cinchona
This term refers specifically to the botanical source of quinine, carrying a strong association with colonial medicine and the historical fight against malaria. It functions as both the name of the living organism and the name of the raw medicinal material derived from its bark.
As a noun, it follows standard countability rules for botanical species. When referring to the bark as a drug or substance, it is treated as an uncountable mass noun, whereas when referring to the trees themselves, it is countable.
Meanings
Examples
The cinchona tree is native to the Andes mountains.
Quinine is extracted from the bark of the cinchona.
They used cinchona bark to treat malaria in the nineteenth century.
I wonder if the cinchona shrub can grow in this climate.
The expedition sought a reliable source of cinchona for the troops.
Is this tonic water flavored with a cinchona extract?
The botanist identified the specimen as a species of cinchona.
Cinchona was once known as Jesuits bark due to its early distributors.