Akademik

Cartagena bark

noun

Colombian tree; source of Cartagena bark (a cinchona bark)

• Syn: ↑Cinchona cordifolia, ↑Cinchona lancifolia

• Hypernyms: ↑cinchona, ↑chinchona

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Cinchona, ↑genus Chinchona

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized C

Etymology: from Cartagena, seaport in Colombia

: a cinchona bark derived from a Colombian tree (Cinchona lancifolia)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.