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quinquina Med.|kɪnˈkiːnə, kwɪnˈkwaɪnə|
Also 7 kinkina, 8 kinquina. See also quinaquina.
[Sp. spelling of Peruvian (Quichuan) kin-kina or kina-kina, redupl. of kina bark, quina.
‘In Quichua, when the name of a plant is reduplicated, it almost invariably implies that it possesses some medicinal qualities’. C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark (1880) 5.]
a. Peruvian or Jesuits' bark; the bark of several species of cinchona, yielding quinine and other febrifugal alkaloids.
b. One or other of the trees producing cinchona-bark.
1656Sir K. Digby Let. in Winthrop Papers (1849) 15, I haue made knowne..in these partes, a barke of a tree that infallibly cureth all intermittent feauours. It cometh from Peru; and is the barke of a tree called by the Spaniardes Kinkina. 1681(title) tr. Bellon's New Mystery in Physick discovered by curing of fevers and agues by quinquina or Jesuites' Powder. 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 406 Physicians, who..prescribe the bark of the Quinquina. 1852Thackeray Esmond i. v, He cured him of an ague with quinquina. 1871W. H. G. Kingston On the banks of the Amazon (1876) 101 Since its use became general in Europe, the export trade of the quinquina has been very considerable.
attrib.1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., The corregidor of Loxa sent to the viceroy a quantity of the quinquina bark. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 17 The first description of the quinquina-tree is due to that memorable French expedition to South America.
Restrict Med. to senses in Dict. and add: 2. Any of several (fortified) French wines containing quinine.
1905Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Rules & Price List 15 Mar. 496/3 Quinquina, Bordeaux. Ibid. St. Raphael Quinquina. 1917Harrods Gen. Catal. 1292/2 Quinquina Dubonnet. 1942[see pastis n.]. 1953R. M. Lockley Trav. with Tent i. 41 A glass of quinquina. 1965O. A. Mendelsohn Dict. Drink 275 Quinine wine, sweet fortified wine to which is added a little quinine and perhaps other ‘botanicals’ to give a bitter taste. Their brands are legion, e.g., Quinquina (French). |