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Chinchona
Chinchona Chin*cho"na, Chincona Chin*co"na See Cinchona.
Cinchona Calisaya
Quinine Qui"nine, n. [F. (cf. Sp. quinina), fr. Sp. quina, or quinaquina, Peruvian bark, fr. Peruv. kina, quina, bark. Cf. Kinic.] (Chem.) An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc. [Written also chinine.]
Cinchonaceous
Cinchonaceous Cin`cho*na"ceous, a. Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.

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- The Chona (Russian: Чона; Yakut: Чуона, Çuona) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. It is a right hand tributary of...
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- Ka Chona is a village in the province Nangarhar in Afghanistan. At a wedding party on July 6, 2008, 47 Afghan civilians were killed by the US Air Force...
- Chonas-l'Amballan (French pronunciation: [ʃɔna lɑ̃balɑ̃]) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Communes of the Isère department...
- anecdotally, have come from someone who was calling out for someone named "Chona Mae", which eventually morphed mistakenly into a cry for "tsunami". The...