genus cinchona

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   large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark

   Synonymsgenus Chinchona

   Broaderasterid dicot genus

   Part ofRubiaceae

Questions about genus cinchona

What does genus cinchona mean?

genus cinchona means "large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark".

What is another word for genus cinchona?

Close synonyms include genus Chinchona. 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 genus cinchona a common word?

genus cinchona 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.