Definition of cinchona

Overview of noun cinchona

The noun cinchona has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. cinchona, cinchona bark, Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark

(medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine)

2. cinchona, chinchona

(any of several trees of the genus Cinchona)