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quinine

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7 lettersPronunciation /kwɪˈniːn/Part of speech nounSorted eiinnquStarts with QEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy

Word origin

Spanish quinaquina and French quinquina are both derived from Quechua kina-kina, a reduplication of kina (“bark; (specifically) Cinchona bark”).

Used in a sentence

  • The alkali of yellow bark may be distinguished from cinchonine by the name of quinine.
  • The quinine, being more potent than cinchonine, is generally preferred.
  • In spite of quinine, the men sickened day by day. Many of them, fine, strong, active fellows, who had never known what a day's sickness meant, went down before the malarious mist that gathered in the jungles.

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