GENUS CHINCHONA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Chinchona mean? 

• GENUS CHINCHONA (noun)
  The noun GENUS CHINCHONA has 1 sense:

1. large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark

  Familiarity information: GENUS CHINCHONA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CHINCHONA (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Chinchona; genus Cinchona

Hypernyms ("genus Chinchona" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Chinchona"):

chinchona; cinchona (any of several trees of the genus 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 ("genus Chinchona" is a member of...):

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)