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calisaya

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calisaya [ˌkælɪˈseɪə]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (Medicine / Pharmacology) the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted Also called calisaya bark yellowbark cinchona
[from Spanish, from the name of a Bolivian Indian who taught the uses of quinine to the Spanish]
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Noun1.calisayacalisaya - Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
Cinchona calisaya, Cinchona ledgeriana, Cinchona officinalis
genus Chinchona, genus Cinchona - large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark
chinchona, cinchona - any of several trees of the genus Cinchona


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We achieved these results by increasing productivity and capacity and by increasing our investments, particularly by modernizing our processing factory," says Juan Manuel Calisaya Mediana, AISJ's general manager.
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The Fever Trail is an illuminating, profusely detailed, and confusingly organized yarn about the arduous European quest to end the South American quinine monopoly by transplanting cinchona and red calisaya trees, whose bark had an even higher concentration of quinine, to plantations in Europe, India, and Indonesia.
Race for the cure. (Political Booknotes) by Franke-Ruta, Garance / Washington Monthly
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