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red bark
noun
- a kind of cinchona containing a high proportion of alkaloids
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One pound of red bark afforded, to Pelletier and Caventou, 74 grains of cinchonina, and 107 grains of quinina.
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The official “bark” of the British Pharmacopoeia is that of Cinchona succirubra or red bark.
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It is an attractive and ever-pleasing tree, its dark red bark soon making it a familar friend.
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She made them out of the pieces of red bark which flaked off the pine-trunks and lay in heaps by the edge of the pool.
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In observing apricots, I have learned that young twigs with red bark are more resistant to cold than those with brown.
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