Crossword-Solution: CINCHONA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cinchona | n. | A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value. |
| Cinchona | n. | The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “CINCHONA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A medicinal drug obtained from the bark of a South American tree, containing quinine | 1 answer |
| tree Peruvian | 1 answer |
| SOUTH American evergreen tree | 1 answer |
| Quinine-supplying tree | 1 answer |
| Peruvian bark | 1 answer |
| Bark yielding quinine | 1 answer |
| TONIC, type of | 2 answers |
| Peruvian tree | 3 answers |
| AMERICAN evergreen | 4 answers |
| South American shrub | 6 answers |
| ANDES SHRUB | 11 answers |
| BOUVARDIA RELATIVE | 14 answers |
| South American tree | 21 answers |
| evergreen tree | 30 answers |
| American plant | 38 answers |
| EVERGREEN plant | 43 answers |
| AMERICAN shrub/tree | 47 answers |
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Sentences with CINCHONA (5)
How clear and airy is the sound! The nerves are harmonised and quieted; the mind attuned to silence; and observe how easily and regularly beats the heart! Your unenlightened doctor would see nothing in these sensations; and yet you yourself perceive they are a part of health.—Did you remember your cinchona this morning? Good.
Cinchona also is a work of nature; it is, after all, only the bark of a tree which we might gather for ourselves if we lived in the locality.—What a world is this! Though a professed atheist, I delight to bear my testimony to the world.
The air, with or without any medicinal virtue blown from the cinchona trees in the far-off Andean forest, was tonic; and when I took my walks on the hillside above the Indian village, or later when able to climb to the summits, the world as seen from those wild Queneveta mountains had a largeness and varied glory of scenery peculiarly refreshing and delightful to the soul.
Damon helped him, for that gentleman had succeeded in putting the affairs of the wholesale drug business on a firm foundation, and there was no more trouble about getting the supplies of cinchona bark to market.
The story of cinchona is of special interest, as it was the first great specific in disease to be discovered.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–1992).