Meanings of chinchona in English

There are numerous species of chinchona, producing bark of greatly different values.

Among others is the chinchona-tree, from which quinine is obtained.

This is the celebrated Peruvian bark, to which the name of chinchona has been given.

We shall be safe there, and I doubt not obtain shelter in one of the huts of the chinchona gatherers.

The region round the little town of Loxa, on the southern frontier of Ecuador, is the original home of the chinchona.

Sister Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona.

Its use dates back to World War II, and it's derived from the bark of the chinchona tree, like quinine, a centuries-old antimalarial.

The chinchona (it is erroneously spelt cinchona) tree constitutes the type of a natural order (Chinchonaceae), which also includes ipecacuanhas and coffees.

The tree itself was not described until 1738, and Linnaeus established the genus "Chinchona" in honor of the Countess.

I found it in forest in the Chinchona reserves, at an elevation of about 5000 feet, on the 14th May.

[Footnote: See Cleghorn, Forests and Gardens of South India, Edinburgh, 1861, and The British Parliamentary return on the Chinchona Plant, 1866.

I found both of them the same day (the 21st May), in the Chinchona reserves, at an elevation of about 5000 feet.