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red bark

noun

  1. a kind of cinchona containing a high proportion of alkaloids
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

One pound of red bark afforded, to Pelletier and Caventou, 74 grains of cinchonina, and 107 grains of quinina.

The official “bark” of the British Pharmacopoeia is that of Cinchona succirubra or red bark.

It is an attractive and ever-pleasing tree, its dark red bark soon making it a familar friend.

She made them out of the pieces of red bark which flaked off the pine-trunks and lay in heaps by the edge of the pool.

In observing apricots, I have learned that young twigs with red bark are more resistant to cold than those with brown.

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