| 单词 | Jesuit's bark |
| 释义 | Jesuit's bark (once / 268621 pages) n WORD FAMILY Jesuit's bark USAGE EXAMPLESThe yellow bark of the barberry contains an essential tonic ingredient, as the Jesuit's bark does quinine, or that of the willow salicine. Various, Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 1...(2010) Afterwards the Jesuits used it; hence it is sometimes called Jesuit's bark. Saunders, William, Catalogue of Economic Plants in the...(2010) Overcome by this evidence I bestow on the good fathers a double portion of gratitude, for they imported the Quinquina yet known as "Jesuit's bark." Robinson, Fayette, The Physiology of Taste(2010) n medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine Syn|Hyper Peruvian bark, cinchona, cinchona bark bark tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants |
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