siŋˈkōnə, sin- also -nˈchō- noun
Etymology: New Latin, after Doña Francisca Henríquez de Ribera, countess of Chinchón died 1641 vicereine of Peru, who was said to have introduced the bark to Europe
1. capitalized : a large genus of trees (family Rubiaceae) native to the Andean region of northwestern So. America and now extensively cultivated both there and in Indonesia and having panicled flowers with a salver-shaped corolla and an ovary crowned with a fleshy disk
2. also chin·cho·na chinˈch- or chin·co·na chinˈk- -s : a tree of the genus Cinchona
3. or cinchona bark also chinchona or chincona -s : the dried bark of any of several trees of the genus Cinchona (especially C. ledgeriana and C. succirubra or their hybrids) containing alkaloids (as quinine, cinchonine, quinidine, and cinchonidine) and being used especially formerly as a specific in malaria, an antipyretic in other fevers, and a tonic and stomachic — called also Jesuits' bark, Peruvian bark