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Jesuit's bark

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of cinchona (bark, either untreated or prepared as a medicine). obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine wordnet

Etymology

After the Jesuit missionary Bernabé Cobo, who first described the cinchona bark and introduced it to Europe in 1632.

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