Usually means: Tree source of quinine, medicinal.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word cinchona:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. cinchona: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cinchona, cinchona: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cinchona: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cinchona: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cinchona: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cinchona, cinchona: Wordnik
  7. cinchona: Wiktionary
  8. cinchona: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cinchona: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cinchona: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cinchona: Dictionary.com
  12. Cinchona (disambiguation), Cinchona: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cinchona: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cinchona: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cinchona: Rhymezone
  16. Cinchona: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cinchona: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. cinchona: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. cinchona: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cinchona: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cinchona: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cinchona: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. cinchona: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. cinchona: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cinchona: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cinchona)

▸ noun:  A tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark.
▸ noun:  The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
▸ noun:  (medicine) Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.

Similar:
chinchona, chincona, Peruvian bark, bark, Cartagena bark, China bark, cuprea bark, yellow bark, calisaya, cacahuananche, more...

Opposite:
uncinchona, non-cinchona

Phrases:
cinchona bark, cinchona tree, cinchona alkaloids, Cinchona officinalis, cinchona alkaloid, more...

Adjectives:
red, yellow, powdered, true, real, peruvian, leaved, little, pale, tincture, american

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Similar:
chinchona, chincona, Peruvian bark, bark, Cartagena bark, China bark, cuprea bark, yellow bark, calisaya, cacahuananche, more...

Opposite:
uncinchona, non-cinchona

Phrases:
cinchona bark, cinchona tree, cinchona alkaloids, Cinchona officinalis, cinchona alkaloid, cinchona calisaya, genus cinchona, cinchona pubescens, cinchona cordifolia, cinchona lancifolia, cinchona ledgeriana, more...

Adjectives:
red, yellow, powdered, true, real, peruvian, leaved, little, pale, tincture, american



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