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Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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