Cinchona

//sɪŋˈkoʊnə//

Synonyms for "cinchona" (8 found)

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Related words (4)

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Translations

32 translations across 14 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • хининова кора noun (bark)
  • хининово дърво noun (tree)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 金雞納 /金鸡纳 noun (tree)
  • 金雞納樹皮 /金鸡纳树皮 noun (bark)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • kinkono noun (tree)
  • kinkono noun (bark)

Finnish

2 entries
  • kiinapuu noun (tree)
  • kiinapuun kuori noun (bark)

French

2 entries
  • herbe des jésuites noun (bark)
  • quinquina noun (tree)

German

2 entries
  • Chinarinde noun (bark)
  • Chinarindenbaum noun (tree)

Hindi

1 entries
  • कुनैन noun (bark)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • kínafa noun (tree)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • quina noun (tree)
  • quina noun (bark)

Russian

4 entries
  • хи́на noun (bark)
  • хи́нная ко́рка noun (bark)
  • хи́нная кора́ noun (bark)
  • хи́нная насто́йка noun (bark)

Spanish

4 entries
  • cascarilla noun (bark)
  • chinchona noun (bark)
  • corteza de quino noun (bark)
  • quina noun (bark)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • singkona noun (tree)

Turkish

3 entries
  • Cizvit merhemi noun (bark)
  • kinin lapası noun (bark)
  • kınakına noun (tree)

Welsh

2 entries
  • rhisgl Periw noun (bark)
  • rhisgl yr India noun (bark)

Sample sentences

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He seems to have collected plants of every kind - sugar-cane, coffee, cinchona, cocoa, indigo, and many others - and thus demonstrates beyond a doubt that Arnheim's Land will not prove herself behind the rest of the tropical world both in planting and agriculture, when the labour question is settled, and a properly-arranged coolie system enables planters to give the country a proper trial.

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German chemists were the first to isolate pure drug chemicals from herbal medicines, with the isolation of morphine from crude opium in 1803 and quinine from the bark of the cinchona tree in 1820.

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