Definitions
any of several trees of the genus Cinchona
Word origin
From New Latin cinchona, from Spanish Chinchón. Named by Carl Linnaeus after Ana de Osorio, 4th Countess of Chinchón (1599–1625), the wife of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, who was allegedly cured of a fever by the bark.
Used in a sentence
“German chemists were the first to isolate pure drug chemicals from herbal medicines, with the isolation of morphine from crude opium in 1803 and quinine from the bark of the cinchona tree in 1820.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Quinine source”8 letters
02“Quinine tree”8 letters
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