cinchona tree

1. 1.

   small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark

   SynonymsCinchona pubescens

   Broadercinchona

   Part ofgenus Cinchona

Questions about cinchona tree

What does cinchona tree mean?

cinchona tree means "small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark".

What is another word for cinchona tree?

Close synonyms include Cinchona pubescens. 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 cinchona tree a common word?

cinchona tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.