calisaya
IPA: kæɫʌsˈɑjʌ
noun
- A valuable Peruvian bark obtained from Cinchona calisaya and closely related species, from which quinine is prepared.
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Examples of "calisaya" in Sentences
- Don't forget what done it -- calisaya bark with them other herbs mixed -- make a tea of it, and give a cupful every two hours.
- She gave me a double handful of bark -- calisaya, I think it was -- and some more herbs that I was to mix with it, and told me what to do.
- The same section, also, produces both coffee and sugar, and to-day the coca shrub is a staple, while calisaya bark is returning into favour.
- This reputation is based on the abundance in that country of two species, the _Cinchona calisaya_ and _Boliviana, _ the best known and most valued in the market.
- This magnificent bit of luck, the finding of the calisaya, awakened in the susceptible bosom of Mr. Marcoy an ardent desire to explore for himself the site of its discovery.
- The yellow, among which figure the _Cinchona calisaya, lancifolia, condaminea, micrantha, pubescens, _ etc., are placed in the first rank: the red, orange and gray are less esteemed.
- He promised, however, to point out the locality from afar, and to show, by a certain changeable gloss proper to the leaf, the precise stratum of the calisaya amongst the belts of the forest.
- [61] More than a score of species of the tree from which this bark is obtained grow in the higher eastern slopes of the Andes, but a very large part is obtained from the tree, _Cinchona calisaya_.
- The estimate made by Eusebio, however, of the trend or direction of the calisaya groves, induced him to forsake the bed of the Cconi, and strike south-eastwardly, so as to cross the Ollachea and the Ayapata.
- Cinchona, the Peruvian bark, and calisaya, its sister, which furnish the quinine of commerce, were well known to them, but they did not know how the white man made it so more efficient than the crude product as used by them.
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