Jesuit's bark

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See cinchona.

[So called because it was first known to Europeans through Jesuit missions in Peru.]

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Jesuit's bark - medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine

cinchona, cinchona bark, Peruvian bark

chinchona, cinchona - any of several trees of the genus Cinchona

bark - tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

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