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n. - Any of several trees native to the Andean region of South America.

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  • I said with enjoyment, 'I could certainly get you drunk in the wilderness, but actual gin would depend on juniper bushes, and tonic on chinchona trees for quinine, and I...
  • Among others is the chinchona-tree, from which quinine is obtained.
  • There are numerous species of chinchona, producing bark of greatly different values.
  • Linnaeus chinchona, in memory of the great service the countess had rendered to the human race.
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