quinine

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Certain toxic compounds, like quinine, taste "bitter" to bees, so the researchers sought to find out whether this sense of taste could help them avoid drinking pesticides.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

Carbonated water failed to do that but it did inspire the creation of medicated water, or tonic water infused with quinine from the bark of the cinchona tree.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2023

Doctors are no longer allowed to prescribe quinine for cramps, so I drink a few mouthfuls of tonic water instead.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2023

“The lime for scurvy, the fizzy water for anemia and other conditions, the quinine for malaria and the gin as a diuretic.”

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022

Tata Bidibidi, with his kind, pretty wife and their precarious boat dispensing milk powder and quinine and love to children along the river.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver