Definition of Cinchonas

1. Noun. (plural of cinchona) ¹

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Definition of Cinchonas

1. cinchona [n] - See also: cinchona

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cinchonas

cinanserin hydrochloride
cinch
cinched
cincher
cinchers
cinches
cinching
cinchocaine
cinchocaines
cinchol
cinchona
cinchona alkaloids
cinchona bark
cinchona tree
cinchonaceous
cinchonas (current term)
cinchonic
cinchonidia
cinchonidine
cinchonine
cinchonines
cinchoninium
cinchonism
cinchonisms
cinchophen
cincinnus
cinclisis
cinct
cincture
cincture sensation

Literary usage of Cinchonas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1867)
"... TO THE cinchonas, AS A METHOD OF ECONOMIZING ALCOHOL IN THE EXHAUSTION OF ... the results given'to any other substance than the cinchonas until they are ..."

2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1867)
"CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE cinchonas CULTIVATED IN INDIA. The Secretary of State for India has appointed Mr. J. Broughton, late Senior Chemical Assistant ..."

3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"According to other authorities, however (p. 961), this acid is likewise present in some of the false cinchonas. 1. ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1865)
"Some groups also, containing many species, are confined to particular regions, as the important cinchonas to a district of the Andes, and the Calceolaria to ..."

5. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1862)
"(a) Alkaloids of the cinchonas. (1203) In the bark of the different varieties of several well characterised and important bases occur. ..."

6. A Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists by James Britten, George Simonds Boulger (1893)
"Notes on the cultivation of cinchonas,' 1863. Pritz. 200 ; Jacks. 576 ; ESC iv. 161 ; Eng. Bot. 2948 ; Gard. Chron. 1876, ii. 150 ; Journ. Bot. ..."

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