MALABAR KINO

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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

Synonyms:

East India kino; kino gum; Malabar kino

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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