NOUN | plant | Malabar kino, East India kino, kino gum | reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc |
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Meaning | reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc. | |
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Synonyms | East India kino, kino gum | |
Broader | 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 |
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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