calisaya

[ kal-uh-sey-yuh ]

noun
  1. the medicinal bark of the tree Cinchona calisaya.

Origin of calisaya

1
1830–40; <New Latin, after Calisaya, name of the Bolivian Indian who told the whites about the medicinal values of cinchona bark

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calisaya

/ (ˌkælɪˈseɪə) /


noun
  1. the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted: Also called: calisaya bark, yellowbark, cinchona

Origin of calisaya

1
C19: from Spanish, from the name of a Bolivian Indian who taught the uses of quinine to the Spanish

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