Jesuit's bark
English
Alternative forms
- Jesuits' bark
Etymology
After Jesuit missionary Bernabé Cobo, who first described the cinchona bark and introduced it to Europe in 1632.
Noun
Jesuit's bark (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Synonym of cinchona (bark, either untreated or prepared as a medicine).
Further reading
Jesuit's bark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia