jesuit's bark

Jesuit's bark

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Definitions of jesuit's bark words

noun jesuit's bark cinchona (def 2). 1
noun jesuit's bark (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A medicine for the treatment of malaria prepared from the bark of various Cinchona trees and shrubs. The main active ingredient was quinine. 0

before 1685

One of the 48% oldest English words

First recorded in 1685-95; introduced into Europe from the Jesuit missions in South America

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