Jesuit's bark

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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)

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

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