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Definition of Cinchona ledgeriana
1. Noun. Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark.
Group relationships: Genus Chinchona, Genus Cinchona
Generic synonyms: Chinchona, Cinchona
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cinchona Ledgeriana
Literary usage of Cinchona ledgeriana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Materia medica and pharmacy by Reynold Webb Wilcox, Sir William Hale-White (1905)
"Name of Plant, cinchona ledgeriana. Cinchona officinalis. ... The dried bark of
cinchona ledgeriana Moens, Cinchona Calisaya Weddell, Cinchona officinalis ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1908)
"Leersum had already in 1905 shown that cinchona ledgeriana seeds, after germinating
10, 20 and 30 days, did contain alkaloids, these consisting of amorphous ..."
3. A Manual of materia medica and pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1906)
"... varieties are the best producers ; at the .same time the following may be
considered in order of importance : 1. Yellow—cinchona ledgeriana and C. ..."
4. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"With the lucky purchase from Mr. Ledger in 1865 of a packet of seeds of the now
well-known cinchona ledgeriana, the Dutch "cinchona culture of the future ..."
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