Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
ki·no Pronunciation:
'kE-(")nO Function:
noun 1 : any of several dark red to black tannin-containing dried juices or extractsobtained from various tropical trees;
especially : the dried juice obtained usually from the trunk of an East Indian tree (
Pterocarpus marsupium) as brown or black fragments andused as an astringent in diarrhea
2 : a tree that produces kino (especially
Pterocarpus marsupium)
[kee-noh] 
), 1645?–1711, Tyrolean-born explorer and missionary in SW North America.