单词 | cinchona tree |
释义 | cinchona tree (once / 149612 pages) n WORD FAMILY cinchona tree: cinchona trees USAGE EXAMPLESFor example, Quinine is a malaria treatment that occurs naturally in cinchona trees. US News(May 25, 2015) In the 1600s, a Spanish physician found that the bark of the cinchona tree treated malaria. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2013) There is a copious growth of the cinchona tree, sarsaparilla, vanilla, copaiba, balsam of Tolu, etc. Alden, John B., Alden's Handy Atlas of the World(2012) n small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark Syn|Hyper Cinchona pubescens chinchona, cinchona any of several trees of the genus Cinchona |
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