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MALABAR KINO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc
Synonyms:
East India kino; kino gum; Malabar kino
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Malabar 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 ("Malabar kino" is a substance of...):
kino; Pterocarpus marsupium (East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning)