Vocabulary : Quinizine to Quinovic

Quinizine : any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, certain of which are used as antipyretics.
Quinnat : The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance.
Quinoa : The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.
Quinogen : A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.
Quinoidine : A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.

Quinoline : A nitrogenous base, C9H7N obtained as a pungent colorless liquid by the distillation of alkaloids, bones, coal tar, etc. It the nucleus of many organic bodies, especially of certain alkaloids and related substances; hence, by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type.
Quinologist : One who is versed in quinology.
Quinology : The science which treats of the cultivation of the cinchona, and of its use in medicine.
Quinone : A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type.
Quinovic : Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.

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