how to pronounce cinchona
/sɪŋˈkəʊnə/
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cinchona is pronounced in four syllables
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meanings of cinchona
noun:
- A tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark.
- The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
- Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.
cinchona frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR
the word cinchona occurs in english on average 0.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics cinchona can be related to
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that cinchona can be often used in the following areas:
1) life, nature, and living environment;
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