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East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning
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kino
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Etymology 1 n. (context seduction community English) Physical contact with another person, touch. Etymology 2 n. (context archaic English) The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent in medicine.
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n. obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning [syn: gum kino , kino gum ] East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning [syn: Pterocarpus marsupium ]
Usage examples of kino.
While Juana prepares breakfast of corncake and pulque, Kino watches "with the detachment of God" as some ants try to outsmart each other in the dirt.
He has the trappings of the rich, whereas you have seen that Kino eats corncake in the dirt, near a fire, wrapped in an old blanket.
The Indian Pharmacopceia recognizes this kind and also Bengal Kino are recognized, and in the United States other kinds are official as well as these two.
Botany Bay, Australian or Eucalyptus Kino from different species of Eucalyptus.
But Kino never has the chance to find out if money buys happiness.
Proudhon, Bellamy, Hudson, Kaif, 47 Ronin, Makoto, Kino Doku, Ka Ko, Mondragon.
Red Gum is official in Great Britain, being imported from Australia, though the Kino generally employed here as the official drug is derived from Pterocarpus Marsupium, a member of the order Leguminosae, East Indian, or Malabar Kino, and is administered in doses of 5 to 20 grains powdered, or 1/2 to 1 drachm of the tincture.
Kino is the inspissated juice of the Bastard Teak (Pterocarpus marsupium) obtained from incisions made in the trunk.