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Jesuit's bark

noun
cinchona (def. 2).

Origin:
1685–95; introduced into Europe from the Jesuit missions in South America
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Jesuit's bark is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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jesuit's bark

noun
medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine [syn: cinchona
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