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单词 quina bark
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quina bark
1. More fully quina bark: cinchona bark; (also) the bark of various other trees having similar medicinal properties. Also: a cinchona tree.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Kina, the Jesuits Bark.
1764 T. Southwell tr. Med. Ess. & Observ. III. 277 Quina is the name the old natives give it. How it came to be called quina-quina, is not easy to discover, unless we shou'd think they meant the bark of barks.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 170/1 Immense forests of this species [sc. Cinchona scrobiculata] exist in the province of S. Jaen de Bracamorros. It is the commonest of all the quinas in that part of Peru, and the most esteemed; in commerce it has the name of Quina fina.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. China Bark, the bark of Buena hexandra, an indifferent febrifuge.
1889 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 16 227 The bark of Pogonopus febrifugus has been introduced into England as a ‘False Cinchona’. It is known in Bolivia as Quina Morada (Red Quina), and is used in the same way as Peruvian bark.
1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 171/1 Quina or calisaya is a natural product of the eastern Andes... The calisaya trees of Bolivia rank among the best, and their bark forms an important item in her foreign trade.
1943 Sci. Monthly July 20/2 The story goes that the Countess of Chinchon..was stricken with malaria in Lima in 1630 and snatched from the verge of the grave by the timely intervention of adequate potions of the bark of quina.
1985 Science 23 Aug. 706/3 According to his [sc. Sebastian Bado's (1663)] account, the first European to learn about ‘quina bark’ (quinaquina in Quechuan means ‘bark of barks’) was the Jesuit missionary Juan López.
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