cinchona

Significado (Inglés)

1. (countable, uncountable) A tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark.
2. (countable, uncountable) The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.

Conceptos

quino

Sinónimos

Peruvian bark

cinchona bark

Jesuit’s bark

chinchona

quinine

cinchona tree

cinchona bar

Traducciones

quinquina

china

kinaboom

cincona

Chinarindenbaum

cincona

kinabast

Herbe des Jésuites

chinachina

Cinchona

kina

quinaquina

quinquina

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/sɪŋˈkəʊnə/

Etimología (Inglés)

From New Latin cinchona, from Spanish Chinchón. Named by Carl Linnaeus after Ana de Osorio, 4th Countess of Chinchón (1599–1625), the wife of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, who was allegedly cured of a fever by the bark.