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Meaning
noun medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine
noun any of several trees of the genus Cinchona
originFrom New Latin cinchona, from Spanish Chinchón. Named by Carl Linnaeus after Ana de Osorio, 4th Countess of Chinchón (1599–1625), the wife of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, who was allegedly cured of a fever by the bark.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- coach 12
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