wild quinine

1. 1.

   stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns

   SynonymsAmerican feverfewprairie dockParthenium integrifolium

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofParthenium

Questions about wild quinine

What does wild quinine mean?

wild quinine means "stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns".

What is another word for wild quinine?

Close synonyms include American feverfew, prairie dock, Parthenium integrifolium. 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 wild quinine a common word?

wild quinine 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.