Associations to the word «Quinine»

Wiktionary

QUININE, noun. (pharmaceutical drug) A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water.

Dictionary definition

QUININE, noun. A bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope