Quillaia bark: alternatives and connections

A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant.

The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.

The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.

A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine…

The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for…

A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.

ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans

A native or citizen of Chili.

See Chili.

A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly…

The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.

A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.

A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili.

Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.

A colorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the…

Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects…