the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
another name for cinchona (sense 2)
Examples of 'cinchona bark' in a sentence
cinchona bark
Cinchona bark has been used as an antimalarial agent for more than 400 years.
Günter Gisselmann, Desiree Alisch, Brigitte Welbers-Joop, Hanns Hatt 2018, 'Effects of Quinine, Quinidine and Chloroquine on Human Muscle Nicotinic AcetylcholineReceptors', Frontiers in Pharmacologyhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphar.2018.01339/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)