Word Meanings - CINCHONA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value. (more info) viceroy of Peru in the seventeenth century, who by its use was freed from

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A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value. (more info) viceroy of Peru in the seventeenth century, who by its use was freed from an intermittent fever, and after her return to Spain,

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• FREIGHT
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• FREQUENTATIVE
  Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
• GROWLER
  The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• GROWL
  To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
• FRETWORK
  Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine.
• FREDSTOLE
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• FREELTE
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• FRENZICAL
  Frantic. Orrery.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
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• FRESHNESS
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• FREE-SPOKEN
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