cinchona

cinchona is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.
2. noun. The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.
3. noun. any of several trees of the genus Cinchona

   Synonyms: chinchona

4. noun. medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine

Synonyms

chinchona

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cinchona:

chincona

Common word forms

cinchonas

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