CINCHONA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cinchona mean? 

• CINCHONA (noun)
  The noun CINCHONA has 2 senses:

1. medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine

2. any of several trees of the genus Cinchona

  Familiarity information: CINCHONA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CINCHONA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cinchona; cinchona bark; Jesuit's bark; Peruvian bark

Hypernyms ("cinchona" is a kind of...):

bark (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)

Holonyms ("cinchona" is a part of...):

chinchona; cinchona (any of several trees of the genus Cinchona)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several trees of the genus Cinchona

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

chinchona; cinchona

Hypernyms ("cinchona" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (parts of "cinchona"):

cinchona; cinchona bark; Jesuit's bark; Peruvian bark (medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "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 ("cinchona" is a member of...):

genus Chinchona; genus Cinchona (large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark)