peruvian bark

1. 1.

   medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine

   Synonymscinchonacinchona barkJesuit's bark

   Broaderbark

   Part ofcinchona

Questions about peruvian bark

What does peruvian bark mean?

peruvian bark means "medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine".

What is another word for peruvian bark?

Close synonyms include cinchona, cinchona bark, Jesuit's bark. 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 peruvian bark a common word?

peruvian bark 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.