Jesuit's bark

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Etymology

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

Noun

Jesuit's bark (uncountable)

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

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