chinchona
Noun
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Any of several trees of the genus Cinchona (synset 112684565)
is a type of: tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiospermssubtypes:
- cartagena bark, cinchona cordifolia, cinchona lancifolia - Colombian tree; source of Cartagena bark (a cinchona bark)
- calisaya, cinchona calisaya, cinchona ledgeriana, cinchona officinalis - Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
- cinchona pubescens, cinchona tree - small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
belongs to: genus chinchona, genus cinchona - large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal barkhas: cinchona, cinchona bark, jesuit's bark, peruvian bark - medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidinesame as: cinchona
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