Quinaquina vs Cinchona - What's the difference?

quinaquina | cinchona |


As a noun quinaquina

is cinchona bark.

As a proper noun cinchona is

.

quinaquina

English

Noun

  • cinchona bark

    • cinchona

    English

    (wikipedia cinchona)

    Alternative forms

    * chinchona, chincona

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several South American trees, of the genus Cinchona , cultivated for its medicinal bark.
  • * 2001': German chemists were the first to isolate pure drug chemicals from herbal medicines, with the isolation of morphine from crude opium in 1803 and quinine from the bark of the '''cinchona tree in 1820. — Leslie Iversen, ''Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 8)
  • The bark of these trees, that yields quinine alkaloids used to treat malaria.