Definitions for quinine

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quinine qui·nine

Spelling: [kwahy-nahyn, kwin-ahyn or, esp. British, kwi-neen<

IPA: /ˈkwaɪ naɪn, ˈkwɪn aɪn or, esp. British, kwɪˈnin/

Quinine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in quinine (eiinnqu).

Definitions for quinine

noun

1. a white, bitter, slightly water-soluble alkaloid, C 20 H 24 N 2 O 2 , having needlelike crystals, obtained from cinchona bark: used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of resistant forms of malaria.
2. a salt of this alkaloid, especially the sulfate.

Origin of quinine

1820-30; Spanish quin(a) (Quechua kina bark) + -ine²

Examples for quinine

Among others is the chinchona-tree, from which quinine is obtained.

In 1638, quinine, derived from this bark, was introduced into Europe as a cure for malaria.

Well, shove in quinine, and keep him quiet, with hot bottles to his feet.

Which would be better to give him, quinine, or aconite and belladonna?

The lower of the two, in one of its compartments, contained our provision of quinine.

Sulphate of quinine is made by the use of sulphuric acid as a solvent.

I guess that quinine saved me—I would like to have Sears know about it.

I swallowed all my stock of aspirin and quinine but without relief.

But I fully believed that quinine was of very great use indeed.

Try to get a little iron and quinine into your constitution.