PERUVIAN BARK

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Meaning:

Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine

Synonyms:

cinchona; cinchona bark; Jesuit's bark; Peruvian bark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Peruvian bark" is a kind of...):

bark (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)

Holonyms ("Peruvian bark" is a part of...):

chinchona; cinchona (any of several trees of the genus Cinchona)