an alkaloid compound found in cinchona bark, related to quinine.
From cinchona plus -ine (a chemical suffix used for alkaloid compounds), created by 19th-century chemists analyzing cinchona's active ingredients.
Cinchotine was discovered when chemists first started breaking down cinchona bark into its individual chemical components—it helped them understand that quinine wasn't the only powerful medicine hidden in that bark.
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