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noun - medicinal bark of cinchona trees
noun - any of several trees of the genus Cinchona
Any of several trees and shrubs of the genus Cinchona, native chiefly to the Andes and cultivated for bark that yields the medicinal alkaloids quinine and quinidine, which are used to treat malaria.
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| an evergreen South American tree or shrub with fragrant flowers, cultivated for its bark. |
| any of several trees of the genus Cinchona |
| An evergreen South American tree or shrub with fragrant flowers, cultivated for its bark. |
| Any of several trees and shrubs of the genus Cinchona, native chiefly to the Andes and cultivated for bark that yields the medicinal alkaloids quinine and quinidine, which are used to treat malaria. |
| The dried bark of any of these plants. Also called Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark. |
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| Cinchona ( or ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae containing at least 23 species of trees and shrubs. They are native to the tropical Andean forests of western South America. A few species are reportedly naturalized in Central America, Jamaica, French Polynesia, Sulawesi, Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, and São Tomé and Príncipe off the coast of tropical Africa. Several species were sought after for their medicinal value and cultivated in India and Java where they also formed hybrids. The barks of several species yield quinine and other alkaloids that were the only effective treatments against malaria during the height of colonialism which made them of great economic and political importance. The synthesis of quinine in 1944, an increase in resistant forms of malaria, and alternate therapies ended the large-scale economic interest in their cultivation. Academic interest continue as cinchona alkaloids show promise in treating falciparum malaria which has evolved |