KINO
\kˈiːnə͡ʊ], \kˈiːnəʊ], \k_ˈiː_n_əʊ]\
Definitions of KINO
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning
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East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning
By Princeton University
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obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning
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East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
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An astringent substance, containing tannin, gum, and extractive matter, obtained from various African, Australian, and Indian trees.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The trees, whence one variety of this resin is obtained, are not botanically ascertained. The London college ascribe it to Pterocar'pus erina'cea; the Edinburgh to Iron bark; and the Dublin to Butea frondo'sa. The Pharmacopoeia of the United States, (1842 and 1851), defines it to be "an extract obtained from an uncertain plant;" that of 1851 states it to be the inspissated juice of Pterocarp'us marsu'pium (De Candolle) and of other plants. On wounding the bark, the kino flows drop by drop. A West India variety is said to be derived from Coccol'oba uvif'era or Sea-side Grape; and a Botany Bay kino is said to be the concrete juice of Eucalyp'tus resinif'era or brown gum-tree of New Holland. Sex. Syst, Icosandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Myrtaceae. Kino consists chiefly of tannic and gallic acids, oxide of iron, and colouring matter. It is inodorous; the taste a sweetish bitter; and it is sometimes gritty between the teeth. It comes to us in fragments of a dark ruby red colour, and is easily pulverized. Its properties are powerfully astringent. Dose, gr. x to gr. xx in powder.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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