Cinchona is valid Scrabble Word

Is cinchona a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for CINCHONA in dictionary:

NOUN:

(Quechua) a tree yielding cinchona bark, from which quinine is made, also CHINACHINA, KINA, KINAKINA, QUINA, QUINAQUINA, QUINQUINA
an evergreen South American tree or shrub with fragrant flowers, cultivated for its bark.
the dried bark of the cinchona, which is a source of quinine and other medicinal substances.
A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.
The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits\' bark.
medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine
any of several trees of the genus Cinchona

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a Peruvian tree
same as calisaya

Words related to CINCHONA

calisaya13 cinchonas16 cinchonic18

Words that contain CINCHONA

cinchonas16 cinchonaceous22

How to use CINCHONA in a sentence

Trees of the most poisonous and deadly qualities grow side by side with the Bread-Fruit, the Cocoa-Nut, and the beneficent Cinchona.
About thirty years ago the Indian government sent botanists to South America to collect young cinchona trees.
Cinchona bark, too, is often stringy, and has a bitter, disagreeable taste.
He has examined the barks of cinchona plants obtained from different conservatories, but has not found in any of them the characteristic reaction of quinine.
Cinchona bark or any preparation containing tannin, as tea, decoction of oak bark, etc.
Tea, coffee, cinchona, sugar-cane, rice, nutmegs, cloves and pepper are cultivated.
In Holland the oil of Cloves is prescribed with cinchona bark for ague.
Cinchona, or the Peruvian bark, was gathered to the amount of two million dollars in one year recently, and the demand is constantly increasing.
The genus Exostemma yields various kinds of false cinchona bark, which do not contain the cinchona alkalies.
The mode adopted by the bark-peelers of obtaining cinchona varies somewhat in different districts.

But the cinchona tree once glowing abundantly, quinine would of course become infinitely cheaper.
In the mean time the importance of the cinchona is paramount.
The story of cinchona is of special interest, as it was the first great specific in disease to be discovered.
In the seventeenth century, as I have already told you, the remarkable discovery was made that the bark of the cinchona tree was a specific.
Your temperature goes up among the threes and fours and remains there, laughing scornfully and feverishly at the cinchona trees and the coal-tar derivatives.

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