quinquina
French, noun/kɛ̃.ki.na/
quinquina is a French masculine noun meaning “cinchona (tree)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écorce amère et fébrifuge qui est fournie par des arbres du genre Cinchona du Pérou”.
What does quinquina mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecinchona (tree)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Écorce amère et fébrifuge qui est fournie par des arbres du genre Cinchona du Pérou. 2. Vin dans lequel on fait macérer cette écorce. 3. Arbre qui fournit cette écorce, il s’agit généralement du quinquina jaune (Cinchona calisaya).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of quinquina
- quinquinas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quinquina?
- /kɛ̃.ki.na/
- \kɛ̃.ki.na\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quinquina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quinquina in French?
quinquina appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).