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EAST INDIA KINO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does East India kino mean?
• EAST INDIA KINO (noun)
The noun EAST INDIA KINO has 1 sense:
1. reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc
Familiarity information: EAST INDIA KINO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
East India kino; kino gum; Malabar kino
Hypernyms ("East India kino" is a kind of...):
resin; rosin (any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules)
Holonyms ("East India kino" is a substance of...):
kino; Pterocarpus marsupium (East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning)
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