Definitions for cinchonas

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cinchonas cin·cho·na

Spelling: [sing-koh-nuh, sin-]

IPA: /sɪŋˈkoʊ nə, sɪn-/

Cinchonas is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 284 anagrams from letters in cinchonas (acchinnos).

Definitions for cinchonas

noun

1. any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Cinchona, of the madder family, especially C. calisaya, native to the Andes, cultivated there and in Java and India for its bark, which yields quinine and other alkaloids.
2. Also called Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark. the medicinal bark of such trees or shrubs.

Origin of cinchonas

New Latin, the Linnaean genus name, after Francisca Enriques de Ribera, Countess of Chinchón (died 1641), who was associated with the introduction of quinine into Europe, in several accounts

Examples for cinchonas

At Tji Wangi there were 500 acres laid down in coffee, and 300 in cinchona.

Its bark is used as a substitute for cinchona in cases of fevers.

It also includes the most useful teak as well as the rubber-tree and the cinchona.

In its immediate neighbourhood are coffee, cinchona, and tea plantations.

The white flower is specially belonging to the cinchona 'rogo' of Apolo.

Quinine made from the bark of the cinchona tree is perhaps the most important.

But it is half-past five, and I must go and take my cinchona bark.

To these must be added two new industries—tea and cinchona bark.

That morning they had discovered a new mancha of cinchona trees.

Incidentally he introduced there the cultivation of cinchona.