| 单词 | cinchona |
| 释义 | cinchona —cinchonic /sin kon"ik/, adj. /sing koh"neuh, sin-/, n. 1. any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Cinchona, of the madder family, esp. C. calisaya, native to the Andes, cultivated there and in Java and India for its bark, which yields quinine and other alkaloids. 2. Also called Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark. the medicinal bark of such trees or shrubs. [ < NL, the Linnaean genus name, after Francisca Enriques de Ribera, Countess of Chinchón (d. 1641), who was associated with the introduction of quinine into Europe, in several accounts now considered spurious] |
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