cinchona


Also found in: Dictionary, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Graphic Thesaurus  🔍
Display ON
Animation ON
Legend
Synonym
Antonym
Related
  • noun

Synonyms for cinchona

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in periodicals archive ?
Extension at rear of Cinchona, Seton Avenue, Thornhill - granted.
When peculiar things begin to happen on his property (a statue inexplicably moves, for one thing), he decides to join an expedition to Peru to retrieve cinchona bark, which contains quinine--a necessity for treating malaria.
In the tea segment at the conference, there was prominent input from the Indonesian Tea Board and the Indonesian Tea and Cinchona Research Institute, with innovative proposals for state-of-the-art technologies for product and processing innovations from Japan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and China.
While quinine was isolated from the bark of the cinchona tree in 1820, chloroquine, proguanil, mefloquine, and atovaquone each were developed during or after a military conflict during 1945-1985.
The book follows a crippled smuggler working for the East India Company as he - along with two companions - heads deep into uncharted territory to find cinchona trees, the only source of quinine that can cure the outbreak of Malaria across the Empire.
Which analgesic occurs naturally in the bark of the cinchona tree?
The result was Pine and Sudachi Tonic, which is a classic combination in Japanese cooking, combining pine needles, cinchona bark, coriander, fennel seed, star anise and pepper with juice from the sour Japanese citrus.