chinchona

Other forms of chinchona

plural

chinchonas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chinchona

What does chinchona mean?

chinchona means "any of several trees of the genus Cinchona".

How many syllables are in chinchona?

chinchona has 3 syllables: chin-cho-na. The stress falls on "chin".

What is another word for chinchona?

Close synonyms include cinchona. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chinchona a common word?

chinchona is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.