Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A reddish resin obtained from several Old World trees of the genera Eucalyptus, Pterocarpus, and Butea and from tropical American trees of the genera Coccoloba and Dipteryx.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A well-known drug resembling catechu, consisting of the gum of several trees belonging to the tropics. It is a more or less brittle substance, in general of a dark reddish-brown color in the mass. Its chief component is tannic acid, and it thus becomes a powerful astringent. Its leading use is medicinal, but it is also employed in India in dyeing cotton, giving the color called
nankeen . The kinds may be classified according to their source, East Indian, Malabar, or Am-boyna kino is the product of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus Marsupium of India and Ceylon. It is the kind most extensively used, and the only kino of the British Pharmacopœia. - n. Another spelling of keno.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent in medicine.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine.
WordNet 3.0
- n. East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning
- n. a gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning
Etymologies
- New Latin, of West African origin; akin to Mandingo keno. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“_B. superba_, natives of the Indian jungles, yield a beautiful dye, and furnishing a species of kino (_Pulas kino_), are also used for tanning.”
“February 13, 2006 8: 32 PM bibliobibuli said ... oh heck, what have i started! the world and her brother will be looking for love in kino tomorrow lunchtime ... just make yourselves visible with a red rose, hey? and why not pass the invitation on by sms and blog and increase the gene pool?”
“The tincture of "kino" -- of which from ten to thirty drops, mixed with a little sugar and water in a spoon, and given every two or three hours, is very efficacious and harmless -- can be procured at almost any druggist's.”
“Tellicherry the concrete exudation called kino, a powerful astringent used for tanning.”
“-- This tree affords gum-kino, which is obtained by making incisions in the bark, from which the juice exudes and hardens into a brittle mass, easily broken into small angular, shining fragments of a bright ruby color.”
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
“And the emphasis is on physical contact, or "kino" short for kinesthetics.”
“I point to myself while I say this, then touch her on the arm to anchor the “kino” when she laughs.”
“Being from Colo we have only spent time from puerto penasco to bahi de kino.”
“Preview: A visiting team is a kino next to a Stargate in a world of the forest, …”
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“Kino: Pioneers of Russian Film is at BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, London SE1 until 30 June. www.bfi.org.uk/kino.html”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kino’.
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Logolepsy
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Naturally occurring gums and resins.
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