Jesuit's bark

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Alternative forms edit

Jesuits' bark

Etymology edit

After Jesuit missionary Bernabé Cobo, who first described the cinchona bark and introduced it to Europe in 1632.

Noun edit

Jesuit 's bark (uncountable)

(obsolete) Synonym of cinchona (bark, either untreated or prepared as a medicine).

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Jesuit's bark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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