English Explanatory Dictionary

Jesuit's bark

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of cinchona (bark, either untreated or prepared as a medicine).

Word forms

Jesuit's bark Jesuits' bark

Etymology

After the Jesuit missionary Bernabé Cobo, who first described the cinchona bark and introduced it to Europe in 1632.

Synonyms

cinchona
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