Cin-chō'nā, n.
n. [So named from the wife of Count Cinchon, viceroy of Peru in the seventeenth century, who by its use was freed from an intermittent fever, and after her return to Spain, contributed to the general propagation of this remedy.]
Sense 1. (Bot.) A genus of trees growing exclusively on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, producing a medicinal bark of great value, known as Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark, &c. Baird.
Sense 2. (Med.) The bark procured from the cinchona-tree.