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Jesuit's bark
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English
Alternative forms
en Jesuits' bark
Etymology
After the Jesuit missionary Bernabé Cobo, who first described the cinchona bark and introduced it to Europe in 1632.
Noun
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en obsolete en cinchona (bark, either untreated or prepared as a medicine).
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