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Noun: genus Cinchona
  1. Large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark
    - genus Chinchona

Type of: asterid dicot genus

Part of: family Rubiaceae, madder family, Rubiaceae

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genus Cimex
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genus Cinchona
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