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Noun: cinchona bark
  1. Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine
    "Cinchona bark was historically used to treat malaria";
    - cinchona, Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark

Derived forms: cinchona barks

Type of: bark

Part of: chinchona [rare], cinchona

Encyclopedia: Cinchona bark