cinchona
Meaning of cinchona
noun
- A tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark.
- The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
- Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.
Information about cinchona
- It is a name.
- The plural form of cinchona is: cinchonas.
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Hyphenation of cinchona
cin-chona
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- cinchona is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
cinchona synonyms
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Anagrams of cinchona
Words that rhyme with cinchona
Barahona, tahona, Chuchona, Cinchona, chinchona, Holosiphona, Siphona, antiphona, hesperiphona, Rhona, Mashona, Shona, chishona
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