cinchers
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A veritable treasure which they had unearthed, worth all the others put together, was a line of those violet cinchonas which the native exporters call Cascarilla morada, and the botanists Cinchona Boliviana.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
A collection of cinchonas was in possession of one of the Bolivians, though it represented but a fraction of the species discovered.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
They went lustily to their work—which was of more importance—and, under Guapo's axe, several of the cinchonas soon “bit the dust.”
From Popular Adventure Tales by Reid, Mayne
It will at once strike the reader as desirable that specimens of cinchonas should be cultivated in hothouses under the influence of the electric light, in addition to that of the sun.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various
At length, all things being ready, Don Pablo and party set out for a day's work among the cinchonas.
From Popular Adventure Tales by Reid, Mayne
