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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Win·ter's bark Bot. The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys Winteri syn.  Drymis Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chile.  It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.