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Quinine vs Quintine - What's the difference?

quinine | quintine |

As nouns the difference between quinine and quintine

is that quinine is (pharmaceutical drug) a bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water while quintine is (botany) the embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument.

quinine

English

(wikipedia quinine)

Noun

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  • (pharmaceutical drug) A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water.
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    • See also

    * Jesuit's bark ----

    quintine

    English

    Noun

  • (botany) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument.

    • See also

    * tercine * quartine ----