Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cinchona

2 senses of cinchona

Sense 1
cinchona, cinchona bark, Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark -- (medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine)
       => bark -- (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)

Sense 2
cinchona, chinchona -- (any of several trees of the genus Cinchona)
       => tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)