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cinchona tree

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Noun1.cinchona treecinchona tree - small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
Cinchona pubescens
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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In 1948, he was invited to Guatemala to a plantation, where Cinchona trees were dying.
In praise of DDT by Howard-Moineau, Henrietta / The New American
The cure, however, came from the foothills of the high Andes, in the bark of the cinchona trees.
The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That ... by Science News
What is clear is that quinine, the active anti-malarial alkaloid in the bark of the South American cinchona tree soon became the only known treatment for the disease caused by the as-yet undiscovered Plasmodium falciparum parasite.
Race for the cure. (Political Booknotes) by Franke-Ruta, Garance / Washington Monthly
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