Jesuit's bark

Jes·u·it's bark (jzh-ts, jz-, -y-)

n.

See cinchona.

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

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Noun

1.

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