Get Free Checker

cinchona tree

NOUN
  1. small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark

How To Use cinchona tree In A Sentence

  • In the mid-seventeenth century, Spain began to import the bitter bark of cinchona trees from Peru and Ecuador as an antidote for malaria.
  • The cinchona tree contains more than 20 alkaloids of which quinine and quinidine are the most important.
  • The cinchona tree contains more than 20 alkaloids of which quinine and quinidine are the most important.
  • Quinine is a natural extract of the cinchona tree, and was used to treat malaria.
  • Quinine, a famous malaria treatment, and quinidine, an antiarrhythmic medication, are made from the bark of the cinchona tree. Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible
  • There are still cinchona trees in the area, though modern medicine has rendered them useless.
  • Malaria victims were treated with quinine, an extract from the bark of the cinchona tree.
  • Fortunately, the group was traveling through the very region that is home to the fabled cinchona tree—the "fever tree," as the natives called it—whose bark is the source of quinine, used as a treatment. An Expedition Without End
  • In 1735, Joseph de Jussieu, a French botanist, collected detailed information about the cinchona trees.
  • The cinchona tree is native to the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains in South America.
View all