genus cinchona
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1. large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | asterid dicot genus, |
| definition | : | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | chinchona, cinchona, |
| definition | : | any of several trees of the genus Cinchona (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | cinchona pubescens, cinchona tree, |
| definition | : | small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | family rubiaceae, madder family, rubiaceae, |
| definition | : | widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry (noun.plant) |
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